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8 Canadian books coming out in February we can't wait to read
A new month means new books! Here are Canadian books coming out in February to check out.
Meet the Canada Reads 2019 contenders
Yanic Truesdale, Lisa Ray, Joe Zee, Ziya Tong and Chuck Comeau are each championing the one book they think all of Canada should read. The debates take place March 25-28.
Enter the CBC Nonfiction Prize
You could win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre and have your work published on CBC Books.
Why Lisa Ray chose to defend Brother by David Chariandy on Canada Reads
Marlon James on writing an 'African Game of Thrones'
New children's book educates public about Sixties Scoop
The Enright Files on Pioneering Female Poets
Why Joe Zee chose to defend The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong on Canada Reads
Book picks for kids, by Cree author David A. Robertson
Tenille Campbell's Indigenous, intimate #IndianLovePoems
Why Kagiso Lesego Molope's books reflect her South African heritage
Art Minute
Illustrator Johnnie Christmas on the weight of experiencing police harassment in Florida as a child
Randy Lundy searches for truth amid solitude with the poetic Blackbird Song
Why Sina Queyras immersed herself in the life and feminism of Sylvia Plath
Writing tip
Is your inner editor slowing you down? Write with abandon
Jenny Kay Dupuis wanted her book to be available in the language her grandmother was punished for speaking
Randy Boyagoda reviews Leonard Cohen's final poetry collection, The Flame
Helen Weinzweig's 'interior feminist espionage novel' about illicit love
'I was really surprised by how kids connect to her': Author's first book a hit in Cree language class
Are you an Indigenous writer? Scholastic wants to hear from you
Lost bannock, a family recipe and the Cree language come together in author's first children's book
Juan Gabriel Vásquez on how Colombia's violent past has shaped his fiction and his life
Meet Joseph A. Dandurand, VPL's 2019 Indigenous storyteller in residence
These dishes from Chinese restaurants are uniquely Canadian. Is your favourite on the list?
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