For one, we’ve got novelist and short story writer Russell Banks, author of The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, Cloudsplitter, Continental Drift, and so many others. Nice, but not enough? How about Alberto Manguel, he of the amazing (find it!) A History of Reading, and also The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, The Library at Night, and most recently his CBC Massey Lecture The City of Words? Still not impressed? Really? Well, there’s Richard Ford, who’s only won the Pen/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His novels The Sportswriter and Independence Day are classics of contemporary American fiction. Bah, too many men, you say? OK, how about someone like Canadian-born Parisian and internationally renown novelist and essayist and translator (she’s amazing) Nancy Huston? How many authors can claim a Governor General’s Award and the Prix Goncourt, the highest fiction award in France? Yes, we’ve got her, too.