Linda Leith has published two novels: Birds of Passage (1993), serialised on Between the Covers (CBC Radio); and The Tragedy Queen (1995), a “Canadians Recommend” title for Canada Reads 2003; the latter, translated by Agnès Guitard into French as Un Amour de Salomé, won the Governor General’s Award for translation. Her non-fiction includes Épouser la Hongrie and Introducing Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes (1990). Her translation, Travels with an Umbrella, An Irish Journey (2000), was nominated for the Glassco Prize 2001 and for the 2002 Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize. She founded Blue Metropolis Foundation in 1997 and is artistic director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival and other Foundation activities. Her website is www.lindaleith.com.

Books by Linda Leith

Birds of Passage

Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes

Tragedy Queen, The

Epouser la Hongrie

The Desert Lake

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