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What is it that hurts?
France Daigle
‘Our visibility and our affirmation as a people is established through our language.’
The Canada Pictures
Douglas Coupland
‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’
Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
‘Language is a risk that a nation takes. If a language survives, its people do too.’ Translated from the French by David Homel.
Écrire Avec Facultés Affaiblies
Fanny Britt
Comme il a grandi, j’ai pensé, puis j’ai passé la débarbouillette sous l’eau tiède du lavabo de la salle de bain.
L’Arbre aux livres
Larry Tremblay
En ce temps si proche, Dieu était partout et personne ne pouvait l’assassiner.
Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
Plus tard, ils me diront comme tu étais un grand homme. Un savant. Un érudit de la chasse.
Clown School
Nuar Alsadir
Political resistance, poetry, self-revelation all spring from that provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.
The File: Lost Then Found
A.M. Homes
‘Even for those of us who feel we have integrated our history, there can be fragments, like shrapnel, that push to the surface without warning.’
Language In Exile
Mireille Gansel
One summer’s day, for the first time, Mitzi broached the past. Past in the present, so present, with everything it had deposited in this room that suddenly seemed so vast. Everything that the grim tide deposits on the shores of a life.
