Mr. Pretty Much translated from Chinese by Jennifer Quist
12 August 2017
This is award-winning novelist Jennifer Quist's first published translation from Chinese. The text of the story is below, followed by Jenn's comments.
The Great Terry Mosher, by Linda Leith
12 August 2017
Linda Leith Publishing has published three of Gazette cartoonist Terry Mosher's books -- Was It Good For You? (2012), Caricature Cartoon Canada (ed. Terry Mosher, 2012), and The Wrecking Ball (2014). His most recent book is From Trudeau to Trudeau: Fifty Years of Aislin Cartoons (2017).
Linda Leith was recently approached for a letter supporting Terry's nomination for a major award; this is that letter.
Screenings of Icaros: A Vision, by Abou Farman
21 July 2017
ICAROS: A VISION, the internationally acclaimed film by Leonor Caraballo & Matteo Norzi, produced by Abou Farman, will be screening in Canada, starting in Vancouver on July 28th, where it opens for a week-long run at Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancity Theatre, and then in Montreal as part of Montreal First People's Festival Présence autochthone on August 7th, Cinéma du Parc, 7 p.m.
Fire Walkers, by Bethlehem Terrefe Gebreyohannes
13 July 2017
It’s 1974, a coup has just installed a repressive military regime in Ethiopia. A family of five undertakes to escape from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, cross the brutal Danakil Desert on foot. Beth Gebreyohannes, a young girl at the time, describes that grim, perilous journey. This excerpt from Fire Walkers appears by kind permission of Mawenzi House.
Remembering Derek Walcott, by Ingrid Bejerman
9 April 2017
The Nobel prize-winning St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott died on March 17, 2017, at the age of 87. Ingrid Bejerman remembers her first meeting with him in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2000, and her last at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival in 2006.
Mavis Gallant's What Is To Be Done? by Linda Leith
28 March 2017
LLP is publishing a new edition of Mavis Gallant's play What Is To Be Done? in September 2017. What follows is an excerpt from Linda Leith's introduction.
Bharati Mukherjee, writer, by Linda Leith
15 February 2017
Author Bharati Mukherjee wrote of immigrant lives.
Special to The Globe and Mail, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017.
Photo of Bharati Mukherjee by Evelyn Hofer,
as it appears in Saturday Night, March 1981.
Glory to the Filmmaker Amir Naderi, by Abou Farman
9 September 2016
Steeped in Translation
19 August 2016
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
Xue Yiwei's Shenzheners, by Linda Leith
19 August 2016
The Shenzhen Economic Daily was preparing a 3-page feature on the publication of Shenzheners, the first of the Chinese-Canadian writer Xue Yiwei's books to appear in English, and I was asked to write about why LLP chose to publish the collection. What follows is the text I wrote, which Yiwei then translated into Chinese.
Going Your Own Way, by Linda Leith
14 May 2016
Asked to present the keynote talk yesterday at the QUESCREN conference Connect and Disconnect: Anglophones, the English Language, and Montreal's Creative Economy, I took the opportunity to consider what has changed and what has remained the same in Montreal's anglophone literary milieu in the six years since the publication of my essay Writing in the Time of Nationalism (Signature Editions, 2010). What follows is a short excerpt from that talk.
Women, Words, and Leadership
12 April 2016
On 11 April, 2016, Linda Leith participated in TD Blue Met Talks: Femmes & leadership | Women & Leadership during the Opening Cocktail of the 18th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival.
Blue Met had invited several women of influence to speak about the power of words, women in leadership and how books have inspired and changed them and their careers. The other participants were Louise-Ann Maziak, Marie-Josée Bédard, Suzanne Fortier, and Marie Giguère.
Face to Face with Michael Mirolla, by Linda Leith
11 April 2016
Philosophy, politics—and a lot of sex. Michael Mirolla's new book, Torp (just published by LLP), is an erotic novel about a young married couple and their friend Torp set in Vancouver in 1970.
Tim Parks's Italy Part II, by Linda Leith
20 January 2016
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)
Part I is here.
Tim Parks’s Italy Part I, by Linda Leith
20 January 2016
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)
Maurice Forget joins Linda Leith Éditions as Conseiller éditorial
18 November 2015
Linda Leith, President of the Montreal publishing house Linda Leith Éditions, is delighted to announce that Maurice Forget is joining LLÉ as Conseiller éditorial.
A Feasibility Study, by Linda Leith
7 November 2015
This is Part III of a three-part text, The Decision to Publish in French.
Do Other Canadian Publishers Work in Two Languages? by Linda Leith
7 November 2015
This is Part II of a three-part text, The Decision to Publish in French. Part I is here; Part III is here.
The Decision to Publish in French, Part I, by Linda Leith
7 November 2015
In September 2014, LLP embarked on a process that has led, one year later, to the decision to publish books in French as well as English.
This is Part I of a three-part text. Part II is here.
A Fairy-tale Victory for Justin Trudeau
20 October 2015
This is a fairy-tale victory for Justin Trudeau. An extraordinary triumph: a majority in Parliament, Liberals elected in every province—even Alberta—and all three territories; a clean sweep of the Maritimes; an entirely unanticipated forty-seven seats in Quebec. And, best of all, no more Harper.
Stephen Harper Explains It All To You, by Warren Clements
5 October 2015
I don’t know how many times I have to explain this to you people.
