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Celebrated Canadian author reads from her dark, sharp, funny novel before appreciative Los Angeles audience
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Canadian literary great Margaret Atwood will set out on a book tour like no other to promote her latest novel The Year of the Flood.
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A look at the stories and the successes that made Canadian authors Douglas Coupland, Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood household literary figures.
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A countdown of the Most Important Books in Canadian Literature, from 1984 to 2004, as reported by the Literary Review of Canada
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