General
- Booklist
Center: This excellent site, compiled
by a former librarian, offers a wide variety of reputable lists of fiction
and nonfiction arranged by category. Also included are numerous awards lists
and best reading sites.
- L'ile: an excellent biographical resource
on Quebec writers. Good links for Quebec literature.
- The Literature of Southern Alberta:
A collection of interviews and critical works on authors such as W.O. Mitchell, Peter Oliva , Andy Russell and Fred Stenson among others by students at the University of Calgary.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection:
The Internet Public Library's comprehensive and well-organized collection of
critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works.
Author Information
- Canadian Writers:
This website by the Library and Archives Canada will highlight writers starting with Marie-Claire Blais, Roger Lemelin, Carol Shields and Michel Tremblay . Information on these authors includes cultural context, a manuscript gallery, resources and related websites
Visit Writers
Links and Biography:
Authors and Writers for
additional author websites.
- AwardWeb: Primarily Science Fiction
awards, but also includes major literary mystery and horror awards.
See also links under Fiction for sites that
include awards genre.
Study Guides
- Web English Teacher Study Guide
Sites: A list of sites for
teachers that provide literary summaries and notes on novels and plays. Most
of the sites will offer some notes for free. The Pink Monkey site includes
Barron's notes.
- No Fear Shakespeare:
Major plays in Shakespearian language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English