Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 2010- the Present
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Final Episode: Funny You Don't Look Like One, Joseph Boyden, Dany Laferriere, David Adams Richards, Alice Munro
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 2000-2010
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 15: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief, Alan Fry and Indigenous writers Thomas King, Richard Wagamese, Eden Robinson, and Harold Johnson, Marie Claire Blais, Wayne Johnson, Newfoundland.
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1990-2000
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 14: More diverse writers emerge, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Rohinton Mistry, Antonine Maillet and the Acadian Ethnic Cleansing
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1980-1990
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 13: Canadian Literature in full bloom,Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Yves Beauchemin, Pierre Trudeau, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Saskatchewan
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1970 -1980
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 12: Paul Henderson's Goal, Mordecai Richler, Anne Hebert and Kamouraska, Alligator Pie, Jack Hodgins, Vancouver Island
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1960-1970
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 11: Oscar Peterson and Martin Luther King, Margaret Laurence, De Gaulle and the FLQ, Jacques Ferron
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1950 -1960s
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 10: The Prosperous Decade, Glenn Gould, Lester Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize, John Diefenbaker and me, Robertson Davies, James Houston and Inuit Art, Yves Theriault and Agaguk.
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1940 -1950
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 9: The Second World War, Gabrielle Roy, Hugh MacLennan, Roger Lemelin, W.O. Mitchell
info_outline
Canada"s Greatest Storytellers 1930-1940
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 8: The Ten Lost Years of The Depression, Barry Broadfoot, Morley Callaghan,More Joy in Heaven, Philippe Panneton/Ringuet, Thirty Acres
info_outline
Canada's Greatest Storytellers,1920 - 1930
douglasgibsonliterarytalks
Episode 7: Roaring Twenties, Group of Seven, Stephen Leacock,Orilla, McGill, Prix Goncourt
info_outlineAlistair MacLeod's long awaited first novel, No Great Mischief, drew me to his Windsor home to grab his manuscript in what he called "a home invasion". It went on to win the IMPAC Award and gain a headline in the local paper in Eigg, Scotland which the MacLeod's left in 1790 to sail for Cape Breton, "EIGG MAN WINS PRIZE".
Alan Fry's brave 1970 book, How A People Die, showed me the extent of what we called "the Indian problem". Since then I have been pleased to support the rise of exciting new Indigenous writers, notably Thomas King and my friends Richard Wagamese and Eden Robinson, and my Cree friend from Saskatchewan, Harold Johnson. Meanwhile this decade recognises the huge contribution of Marie Claire Blais who has been a major figure on the Quebec scene over six decades. Finally we recognise Wayne Johnson and the remarkable group of Newfoundland writers- including Joey Smallwood pacing around my small office, orating.