![]() ![]() ![]() Nobody's ever talked about the 'Canadian Century'! It tends to give you a somewhat different perspective more pessimistic, and perhaps more modest. There's the historical background Canada's history starts with an enormous disaster (the American Revolution, from our point of view) and then goes through a century or so of being a loyal Dominion of the Empire. “As to the impact of Canada on my writing. My mother and my father's mother were English, for example. English-speaking Canada was founded by refugee Americans - the Loyalists - and thereafter maintained links with both. ![]() There's a more or less unified market and it's enormous pity the poor Dane or Finn, with the equivalent of one medium-large city as audience! Being Canadian is an additional advantage you're halfway between the UK and the US, in terms of cultural distance, and so have a better shot at appealing to each. “Anyone who writes fiction in English is lucky. ![]()
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