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Rawi Hage and the IMPAC, plus some Giller things

Submitted by Nathan Whitlock 2008 on June 13, 2008 - 10:53am
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As you've probably heard, Montrealer Rawi Hage won the Dublin IMPAC for his first novel, De Niro's Game (House of Anansi Press).

It's an astonishing and deserved win. Congratulations, Rawi.

Read a profile of Hage from the new issue of Quill & Quire (shameless day-job plug) here.

For more Hage-related reading, feel free to go waaayy back to 2006 for a discussion of the Giller Prize that year. (Hage was nominated, but lost out to Vincent Lam.)

And if that whets your appetite for lengthy Giller diatribes, then read this essay by Alex Good.

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COPYCAN AND A WRITER'S RIGHTS

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Submitted by lrogers on November 16, 2008 - 7:32pm

COPYCAN AND A WRITER'S RIGHTS

Last night, when I read at the launch of Rocksalt, the very handsome new anthology of BC poetry from Mother Tongue Publishing Company, I ran into League of Poets President Dennis Reid and Past President Cathy Ford.

They told me they have been crossing the country trying to raise awareness about the situation with Copycan, which pays for intellectual property. If you are a writer, or a writer's accountant, you know the situation. Apart from perhaps a half dozen of us, writers are bottom rung cultural workers.

Nathan Whitlock

Nathan Whitlock is the review editor of Quill & Quire magazine. His writing and reviews have appeared in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, Toro, Geist, Saturday Night and elsewhere. His novel, A Week of This: a novel in seven days, was published this spring by ECW Press.

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