Noah Richler

One of Canada’s public intellectuals, Noah Richler was a prize-winning producer and host of documentaries and features at BBC Radio before he returned to Canada in 1998 to join the founding staff of the National Post as its first books editor and later as a literary columnist. He has written for CBC Radio’s Ideas, for the Op-Ed and cultural pages of the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, and the National Post, and for the Walrus, MacLean’s, and EnRoute, for which he has won several national magazine awards. He is the author of This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada, finalist for the 2006 Nereus Writer’s Trust Non-Fiction Prize and winner of the 2007 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He lives in Toronto and in Digby, Nova Scotia.