Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 2010- the Present

This is the final podcast in my series Canada's Greatest Storytellers 1867 to today. But this look at the past decade from 2010 to today is full of interesting authors and questions. Drew Hayden Taylor's book Funny You Don't Look Like One:Observations from a Blue Eyed Ojibway makes it clear that determining who is an Indigenous writer in Canada is complicated. It's become very complicated in the case of Joseph Boyden. But I celebrate him by asking the question: Has Joseph Boyden's writing revealed to many readers the important role of Indigenous people in our country's history, and answering with a clear YES.

Dany Laferriere escaped assassination in Haiti and came to Canada where he has become a respected writer in French. So respected that he has become "an Immortal", one of the 40 immortal members of "L'Acadamie Francaise".

The novelist David Adams Richards, who writes about blue collar life in New Brunswick, has become a Senator, and is certain to speak truth to power.

Finally-triumphantly-this podcast deals with Canada's first Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, Alice Munro. I have had the honour of editing and publishing Alice ever since The Progress Of Love in 1977, and proudly attended the prize ceremony in Stockholm.