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Mark Sakamoto

The winner of Canada Reads says Japanese internment haunts us still

Mark Sakamoto says his grandparents’ forgiveness of the wrongs done to them in the Second World War helped him overcome the struggles in his own life

Canada Reads and what makes a book great

Michael Petrou considers the criteria for the CBC’s annual book competition

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CBC’s ‘Canada Reads’ descends into farce

Accusations of terrorism and plagiarism fly in book competition

Lionel Shapiro in 1955: ‘What is distinctively Canadian literature?’

‘Only in Canada is Canadian writing derided, decried and indeed dismissed as nonexistent,’ said Shapiro, one of the most versatile and widely recognized writers Canada had ever produced