Linda Leith

Linda Jane Leith OC is a Montreal-based writer, editor, and publisher.

Leith was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and first moved to Montreal with her family in 1963. She studied in Paris and London and later spent two years in Budapest, Hungary. She taught in the Department of English at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. Leith spent fourteen years as president and artistic director of Blue Metropolis, the first multilingual literary festival in the world.[1] For her achievement she was awarded the Quebec Writers' Federation Community Award in 2003 [2] and Canada's Commissioner of Official Languages' first Award of Excellence – Promotion of Linguistic Duality, in 2009. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her "contribution to Canada" in 2012.

In 2010, Leith left Blue Metropolis. In 2011, she founded a publishing company, Linda Leith Publishing, and the online magazine Salon .ll.

Leith is the author of the literary history Writing in the Time of Nationalism, which The Globe and Mail called "a very fine book," "written in clear, exhilarating prose,"[3] and the memoir Marrying Hungary, as well as a study of Hugh MacLennan's novel Two Solitudes. She has also published three novels: Birds of Passage, The Tragedy Queen, and The Desert Lake.

In 2020, she was appointed as an officer to the Order of Canada.[4]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Birds of Passage, Signature Editions, 1993
  • The Tragedy Queen, Signature Editions, 1995 (translated into French by Agnès Guitard, as Un Amour de Salomé, XYZ, 2002)
  • The Desert Lake, Signature Editions, 2007

Non-fiction
  • Marrying Hungary, Signature Editions, 2008 (translated into French by Aline Apostolska, as Épouser la Hongrie, Leméac, 2004; translated into Serbian by Aleksandra Mančić, as U braku sa Mađarskom, Rad, 2005)
  • Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis, Signature Editions, 2010 (translated into French by Alain Roy, as Écrire au temps du nationalisme, Leméac, 2014)

References
  1. "Literary Festivals – The BPC". Book and Periodical Council of Canada. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  2. "Previous QWF Awards Winners". Quebec Writers' Foundation. 31 October 2014. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  3. Ackerman, Marianne (21 March 2011). "Note to ROC: Anglo Montreal has great writers, too". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  4. "Governor General Announces 114 New Appointments to the Order of Canada".
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