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Works by Austin Clarke

Nine Men Who Laughed

‘Membering (ebook)

The Origin of Waves: a Novel (ebook)

Choosing His Coffin: the Best Stories of Austin Clarke (ebook)

Where the Sun Shines Best (ebook)

The Polished Hoe (audiobook)

Love and Sweet Food: a Culinary Memoir

Other Related Books or Materials

Austin Clarke: Essays on his Work by Camille Isaacs

The Passions of Austin Clarke by Donna Bailey Nurse (link opens an article from The Walrus from Jun 2016)

Remembering Author Austin Clarke by Andrea Baillie (ink opens McLean’s article from Jun 2016)

Austin Clarke: a Frank and Thoughtful Critic (link opens CBC Archives interview from 1963)

Austin Clarke (link opens a 1969 photo by Boris Sprimo from TPL’s Special Collections of the Toronto Star Archives; all of Clarke’s images from the Toronto Star Archives can be found here)

About the Host

Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.

Music is by Yuka

From the Archives

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.

Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.