 | Thursday, December 10, 2020 | |  | | | | 2020 is almost over! Which means it's time to look back on the best books of the year. Here are our favourite works of Canadian fiction! | | |  | | | | Marvel Comics' latest anthology series Indigenous Voices was released in late November. The first issue features a story starring Maya Lopez, written by Black-Ohkay Owingeh science fiction and fantasy author Rebecca Roanhorse and drawn by Tongva artist Weshoyot Alvitre. | | |  | | | | The Sri Lankan Canadian Shyam Selvadurai is the award-winning author of Funny Boy, the dramatic 1994 novel set in the 1980s that has been adapted to screen by Indian Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta.
Funny Boy can now be seen on CBC Gem. | | |  | | | | Rupi Kaur joined q host Tom Power to talk about how internet culture and sudden fame impacted her mental health, and how writing Home Body — a book that she calls a love letter to the self — helped her find her voice again. | | |  | | | | Each title will be featured for two to four weeks and readers will be encouraged to read along together.
Each chapter of the book club will wrap with an interview with the author. The interviews will be streamed live online.
The first book will be the winner, How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa. | | |  | | | | Christa Couture is a writer, musician and broadcaster who is currently based in Toronto. How to Lose Everything is an intimate look at all that Couture has lost over the course of her life: her leg was amputated, her first child died when he was one day old, her second child died as a baby after a heart transplant, her marriage ended in divorce and a thyroidectomy threatened her music career. Couture spoke with Shelagh Rogers about sharing her story on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | Tsitsi Dangarembga's latest novel, This Mournable Body, follows the life and dreams of Tambudzai Sigauke, an ambitious Zimbabwean woman who escapes an impoverished rural life for an education and a career — navigating sexism, racism and political turmoil along the way.
Dangarembga spoke with Eleanor Wachtel for the latest episode of Writers & Company. | | |  | | | | Armand Garnet Ruffo is an Ojibway scholar, filmmaker, writer and poet. In 2020, he received the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, which is given to a Canadian poet mid-career, recognizing their contributions to Canadian literature while also supporting future work. In this 2015 interview, he spoke with Shelagh Rogers about writing Norval Morrisseau. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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