As we have covered the legends of Canadian women in fiction as well as the New Guard, it's only fair to give the Canadian men a shake …
Readers of a certain age are apt to yawn when the term Can Lit is mentioned. We Canadians have a habit of being so hard on … well, Canadians, not just in judging the quality of our homegrown artists’ work, but on promoting that work. That our neighbours to the south are the world’s best at unabashed self-promotion doesn’t help. Nor does our national tendency toward self-effacement, a great quality no doubt, except when it comes to the promoting of things. All this as a defence for why it’s worth heralding five of our greatest male writers and recognizing what remarkable talents this country has produced.
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