My Hockey Sweater (after Roch Carrier)
Habs fever hit Endre Farkas as a small boy in Communist Hungary with the surprise arrival of a red wool sweater with a CH in the middle.
Watch David Homel with Dragan Todorovic: Conversation and public reading. Homel is an American Canadian writer and translator, with multiple awards for his novels and his translations. The interview covers his whole career in writing. Some of the themes are crypto-languages, translation as a way of improving the originals, and novel as a result of shortage of some kind.
How Did I Get Here? A Writer's Education
David Homel
September 2023
$19.95 | ISBN: 9781773901404
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David Homel is the award-winning author of nine novels and five works of fiction for younger readers, the latter co-authored with Marie-Louise Gay. In 2021, he ventured into the field of the personal essay with the memoir Lunging into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward (LLP 2021), which––part medical memoir and part speculation about the love life of older women and men––led Homel to return to the slippery field of self-discovery and the remodeling of the past.
[Photo: Marina Vulicevic]
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Habs fever hit Endre Farkas as a small boy in Communist Hungary with the surprise arrival of a red wool sweater with a CH in the middle.
Part Two: Fameck, May 2003: Waiting for the mailman, and Sylvia
Daewoo, an evocative historical novel by François Bon, gives voice to the (mostly women) workers who were the ultimate victims of this corporate crime.

The Canadian book trade magazine Quill & Quire's Reviews editor Steven W. Beattie is the first journalist to have noticed that LLP "is enormously supportive of literature in translation." That was in the 2016 Fall Preview published in the July issue.
Literary translator Darryl Sterk and his daughter Julie

This is, in short, the busiest time of the year for literary publishers here, perhaps even more so than elsewhere in Canada, since the Quebec industry takes its lead from France in its single-minded focus on the fall.
Kim Thuy
