Granta 141: Canada [Paperback]

From Canada's global cities to its Arctic Circle - from the country's ongoing story of civil rights movements to languages under pressure - the writers in this issue upend the ways we imagine land, reconciliation, truth and belonging, revealing the histories of a nation's future.

Margaret Atwood, Gary Barwin, Dionne Brand, Fanny Britt, Douglas Coupland, France Daigle, Alain Farah, Naomi Fontaine, Dominique Fortier, Krista Foss, Kim Fu, Rawi Hage, Anosh Irani, Falen Johnson, Benoit Jutras, Alex Leslie, Alexander MacLeod, Daphne Marlatt, Lisa Moore, Nadim Roberts, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Chlo? Savoie-Bernard, Anakana Schofield, Paul Seesequasis, Johanna Skibsrud, Karen Solie, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Larry Tremblay.Catherine Leroux is a novelist, translator and journalist. Her 2014 novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize, and its English translation, The Party Wall, was nominated for the Giller Prize. Her third book, Madame Victoria won the 2016 Adrienne-Choquette Award for short stories. She lives in Montreal.

Madeleine Thien is the author of a short-story collection and three novels. Her most recent book, Do Not Say We Have Nothing was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, won the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor-Generals Award for Fiction, and was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2016. She lives in Montreal.In this special issue of Granta, we celebrate the diversity of social, political and literary life in Canada.