Judith Lermer Crawley

Born in Northern Ireland, Linda Leith is the Montreal writer who founded the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival.
She is the author of three novels: Birds of Passage (Signature, 1993), which was reviewed as “an excellent first novel” in the Times Literary Supplement ; The Tragedy Queen (Signature, 1995), translated into French as Un Amour de Salomé (XYZ Éditeur, 2003, trans. Agnès Guitard), winner of the 2004 Governor General’s Award for Translation; and The Desert Lake (Signature, 2007).

Her non-fiction books include Marrying Hungary (Signature 2008), a memoir originally commissioned by Leméac and published in French as Épouser la Hongrie (2004, trans. Aline Apostolska), and then in Serbian (Rad, 2005, trans. Aleksandra Mančič). Her most recent book is the literary history Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis (Signature 2010), which chronicles the fall and rise of English-language fiction from Montreal in the period since 1945.
She created the online literary salon .ll. in March 2011 and incorporated Linda Leith Publishing Inc. / Linda Leith Éditions inc. in June 2011

Books by Linda Leith

Birds of Passage

Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes

Tragedy Queen, The

Epouser la Hongrie

The Desert Lake

Marrying Hungary

Deux Solitudes

Writing in the Time of Nationalism