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Ann-Marie MacDonald is the first Richler writer in residence at Concordia University’s Mordecai Richler Reading Room.
Concordia’s Mordecai Richler Reading Room, pictured, is designed to inspire writers, spark ideas among students, and foster original scholastic research.
Concordia’s Mordecai Richler Reading Room
Ann-Marie MacDonald is named Concordia’s first Richler writer-in-residence
Sir George Williams University — now Concordia — was home to Mordecai Richler for only a few years, but his spirit will be galvanizing a new generation of students.
Concordia’s latest...
The 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists (source: The Neustadt Prize)
Ann-Marie has been chosen as one of nine finalists for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The Prize is the most prestigious international literary award given in the United States and is celebrated for its exclusive focus...
‘Adult Onset,’ by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Do our more modest northern neighbors talk about the Great Canadian Novel? After all, they have big geography there too — the mountains, the prairies. “Always in view was the vastness of what in most countries would be called a sea but in Canada was known simply...
“Answering the question why I love this book is, when it’s with reference to a book I’ve written, is extremely hard.”
Ann-Marie MacDonald, 56, writer, Toronto
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“MacDonald’s strong narrative is a compelling examination of the loneliness and the often-absurd helplessness of being a parent of young children.” Read more
Ann-Marie (right) reading from ‘Adult Onset’ at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, with CBC’s Sandra Abma, November 2014
Ann-Marie MacDonald, writer-actor-creator-feminist
“As an artist you have to have authentic self and an authentic core, which is a channel for stories and for meaning.” –...
Adult Onset by Ann-Marie MacDonald review – an acidly funny portrait of parenthood
A writer’s stint in the psychic sweat lodge of toddler-rearing prompts a search for the secrets of her troubled childhood
It’s April on an ordinary Monday in a trendy Toronto neighbourhood and the trees are “tight with...
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s latest novel revisits painful terrain to find forgiveness
“The way I’ve been thinking of [this book] is like when you haven’t gone grocery shopping, but need to make supper. There’s always pasta. My youngest was five when I started writing this book. I thought okay, I’m going to...
