Harry Palmer

Five-time Governor General’s Award winner Hugh MacLennan studied at Dalhousie, Oxford and Princeton Universities before becoming a teacher at Lower Canada College in Montreal. His best-known novel is Two Solitudes (1945), an allegory for the tensions between English and French Canadians. It won him his first Governor General’s Award for Fiction. MacLennan began teaching at McGill University in 1951. He became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967, and in 1985, was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. MacLennan continued to write and publish work until his death in 1990.

Books by Hugh MacLennan

Return of the Sphinx

Each Man's Son

Voices in Time

Dear Marian, Dear Hugh

The Colour of Canada

Barometer Rising

On Being a Maritime Writer

The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan

Seven Rivers of Canada

Oxyrhynchus : an Economic and Social Study

Scotchman's Return and Other Essays

Thirty and Three

The Precipice

Cross Country

Two Solitudes

The Watch that Ends the Night

Canadian Unity and Quebec

The Future of the Novel as an Art Form