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"Other Solitudes"panel on multicultural writing, with Linda Hutcheon, Nino Ricci, and Maxine Tynes.. A performance of M.G. Vasssanji's short story "The Little Warrior.". Novelist Susan Swan reveals her surprising reading habit.

Year: 1991

Names: Fenwick, Moya, Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Ricci, Nino, 1959-, Swan, Susan, 1945-, Tynes, Maxine, Varughese, Sugith, 1958-, Vassanji, M. G., Wachtel, Eleanor

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PANEL: Professor Linda Hutcheon, novelist Nino Ricci, and poet Maxine Tynes discuss multiculturalism in Canadian literature. (includes discussion of L. Hutcheon (Ed.), Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions,1990,Oxford Univ. Press). LIT FEATURE: A performance of a specially-commissioned work, "The Little Warrior," by author M.G. Vassanji. Read by Sugith Varughese and Moya Fenwick. INTERVIEW: Susan Swan discusses her "guilty pleasure" - reading women's magazines.

Part of: Writers & Company

Type: Sound recording non-musical

Montréal UNESCO Panel on "Writing Montréal," with Marianne Ackerman, Joël Des Rosiers, Dimitri Nasrallah and Pierre Nepveu

Year: 2006

Names: Ackerman, Marianne, Des Rosiers, Joël, Nasrallah, Dimitri, 1978-, Nepveu, Pierre, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor

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This week, Writers & Company presents a round table from the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal - named the City of Words this year by UNESCO. Eleanor Wachtel talks with four writers - Marianne Ackerman, Joël Des Rosiers, Dimitri Nasrallah and Pierre Nepveu - about the changing face of Montréal's literary scene.

Part of: Writers & Company

Type: Sound recording non-musical