Since 1990, Canadian fiction has blossomed. Suddenly, from a seemingly quiet and internal culture, Canadian novels have exploded internationally, garnering acclaim and prizes around the world, from the Orange to the Pulitzer and all stops in between.
The Power to Bend Spoons collects interviews with Canadian fiction writers from this dynamic period and provides an intriguing and in-depth look at authors, their working practices, and their literary obsessions.
INTERVIEWED IN THE POWER TO BEND SPOONS: Jeannette Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Carole Corbeil, Frank Davey, Timothy Findley, Douglas Glover, Janette Turner Hospital, Thomas King, Joy Kogawa, Steve McCaffery, Michael Ondaatje, Althea Prince, Nino Ricci, Mordecai Richler, Veronica Ross, Gail Scott, Makeda Silvera, Audrey Thomas, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Jane Urquhart, and M.G. Vassanji.
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Beverley Daurio is the editor of Dream Elevators: Interviews with Canadian Poets, The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists, and of several anthologies of stories, including Sex: An Anthology, Vivid: Stories by Five Women, Love & Hunger: New Fiction and Hard Times. Her fiction has been published in Canada, Australia, England, and the US. The author of several books and chapbooks, including Hell & Other Novels (Coach House/Talon), Daurio has also published essays and literary criticism in journals and newspapers across Canada, including Books in Canada and the Globe and Mail.
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