The Canadian short story - widely recognized as a distinctive and unusually strong genre in the creative literature of the country - was celebrated in 1986 with the publication of The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Published to great acclaim, the original collection has been a
great commercial success. It is here revised and updated to reflect the increasing diversity of the genre, and the growing reputation of a new generation of writers.
Of the original inclusions, eight were dropped and thirteen replaced. Eighteen writers (among them Margaret Atwood,
Matt Cohen, Timothy Findley, W.P. Kinsella, and Audrey Thomas) are represented by different stories. Writers appearing for the first time include Caroline Adderson, Ann Copeland, Bonnie Burnard, Cynthia Flood, Barbara Gowdy, Thomas King, Rohinton Mistry, Diane Schoemperlen, and Linda Svendsen.
Ethel Wilson, 1888-1980: Haply the Soul of My Grandmother
Morley Callaghan, 1903-1990: All the Years of Her Life
Thomas H. Raddall, 1903-1994: The Wedding Gift
Sinclair Ross, 1908: The Lamp at Noon
Joyce Marshall, 1913: The Old Woman
Hugh Garner, 1913-1979: One-Two-Three
Little Indians
Mavis Gallant, 1922: Scarves, Beads, Sandals
Norman Levine, 1923: Something Happened Here
Margaret Laurence, 1926-1987: The Mask of the Bear
James Reaney, 1926: The Bully
Hugh Hood, 1928: Getting to Williamstown
Timothy Findley, 1930: The Duel in Cluny
Park
Alice Munro, 1931: The Jack Randa Hotel
Jane Rule, 1931: The End of Summer
Austin C. Clarke, 1932: Griff!
Marian Engel, 1933-1985: Share and Share Alike
Leon Rooke, 1934: The Woman Who Talked to Horses
Rudy Wiebe, 1934: Where Is the Voice Coming From?
George
Bowering, 1935: The Hayfield
W.P. Kinsella, 1935: Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
Carol Shields, 1935: Milk Bread Beer Ice
Audrey Thomas, 1935: Bear Country
Alistair MacLeod, 1936: As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
Barry Callaghan, 1937: The Black Queen
John Metcalf, 1938: The
Years in Exile
Margaret Atwood, 1939: True Trash
W.D. Valgardson, 1939: God Is Not a Fish Inspector
Clark Blaise, 1940: A Class of New Canadians
Cynthia Flood, 1940: The Meaning of the Marriage
Sandra Birdsell, 1942: Flowers for Weddings and Funerals
Matt Cohen, 1942:
Trotsky's First Confessions
Isabel Huggan, 1943: Celia Behind Me
Thomas King, 1943: One Good Story, That One
Bonnie Burnard, 1945: Deer Heart
Bronwen Wallace, 1945-1989: For Puzzled in Wisconsin
Douglas Glover, 1948: Swain Corliss, Hero of Malcolm's Mills (Now Oakland, Ontario),
November 6, 1814
Margaret Gibson, 1948: Making It
Katherine Govier, 1948: Sociology
Barbara Gowdy, 1950: We So Seldom Look on Love
Guy Vanderhaeghe, 1951: Dancing Bear
Rohinton Mistry, 1952: The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
Dionne Brand, 1953: Sans Souci
Janice Kulyk Keefer,
1953: Transfigurations
Diane Schoemperlen, 1954: Red Plaid Shirt
Linda Svendsen, 1954: White Shoulders
Neil Bissoondath, 1955: Digging Up the Mountains
Caroline Adderson, 1963: The Chmarnyk
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Author of more than 40 books, Margaret Atwood has won as many awards, including the Union Poetry Prize (Chicago), the Bess Hoskins Prize (Chicago), the Radcliffe Graduate Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Welsh Arts Council International Writers Prize, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Writers
Award, the Ritz Hemingway Prize (Paris), the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, the John Hughes Prize of the Welsh Development Board, and a Centennial Medal from Harvard University. Her work has been translated into more than sixteen languages. Robert Weaver, now retired from his
30-year career as executive producer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation literary radio show "Anthology", has edited more than a dozen anthologies.
