Yann Martel and Wajdi Mouawad letters to Harper
Saturday, September 20th, 2008These letters are a must read during the period leading up to the Canadian federal election. The web site that you visit when you go to read these letters is a new site dedicated to new political theatre. It is called The Wrecking Ball. Wajdi Mouawad’s letter in particular is a wonderful articulate argument to [...]
Author Yann Martel invites Stephen Harper to read the Kreuzer Sonata
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Author Yann Martel has been challenging our Prime Minister to read great works of literature for some time now and documenting the process on his great web site. Recently he decided to suggest Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata, to which the Stand on Guard for CBC Coalition added Jane Coop and Andrew Dawes playing the music [...]
Letter to Prime Minister Harper from writer Yann Martel
Monday, May 26th, 2008*A couple of weeks ago, we contacted Yann Martel, the Man Booker prizewinner and asked him about his views on the disbanding of the CBC Radio Orchestra. Mr Martel had written an article in the Globe and Mail last year about the 50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts and his experience along [...]