Toronto Reference Library Blog

Join us on Thursday, November 10 at 7pm, in Beeton Hall at Toronto Reference Library, to hear Noah Richler. This will conclude Toronto Reference Library's participation in the Fall eh List Author Series, Toronto Public Library’s celebration of writers from across Canada.

A celebrated author, journalist and broadcaster, Noah Richler has contributed to numerous publications in Canada and Britain, including The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian  and The Daily Telegraph. He made documentaries and features for BBC radio for fourteen years before returning to Canada in 1998 to become the books editor and then literary columnist for the National Post.

           


Richler's book, This is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada, won'the 2007 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. With your Toronto Public Library card, you can borrow it, as well as a 4-DVD set based on this book, A Literary Atlas of Canada. Richler is also the author of What We Talk About When We Talk About War, and The North-South Project: an Anthology of the Lost, and has contributed to other anthologies and cross-platform projects, such as Northwords.

     
Richler ran as a candidate for the NDP in the Toronto-St. Paul’s riding in the 2015 federal election. His latest book, The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, is based on his experience during that campaign, and is told in a comical and revealing way. Find out more from his recent interview with Now.

Born in Montreal, the son of novelist Mordechai Richler, Noah Richler was raised in Canada and England, and worked in his youth in the prairies, the Yukon, and Labrador. He lives in Toronto.

With thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their support of the Eh List series, as well as our media partner, The Toronto Star, and Book City for bringing copies of Noah Richler's books for purchase and signing.

You can find out more about the fall eh List Author Series on our What's On blog, or follow the conversation online using the hashtag: #ehList.