Linda Leith

Montreal writer and publisher Linda Leith, O.C. was born in Northern Ireland and has lived in Basel, London, Paris, Ottawa, and Budapest. Her most recent books have been works of literary non-fiction:

The autobiographical essay The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life (University of Regina Press, April 2021).

Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis (Signature, 2010) was published in French as Écrire au temps du nationalisme (Leméac) in 2014.

Marrying Hungary is a memoir originally commissioned by Leméac and published in French as Épouser la

Hongrie (2004, trans. Aline Apostolska), and then in Serbian (Rad, 2005, trans. Aleksandra Mancic) before publication in English (Signature 2008).

Her novels are Birds of Passage (1993), The Tragedy Queen (19955), and The Desert Lake (2007).

For further information, check out her website: lindaleithauthor.com.

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2020.