Montreal sons
An article on the CBC website profiles Montreal’s upcoming Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. Organizers of the festival are focusing on writers with a connection to Montreal, and to that end are planning tributes to two eminent authors who passed away in the last year: Saul Bellow and Irving Layton. The article also rehashes the debate on whether Bellow, who left Montreal when he was nine years old, can really be considered a “Montreal writer.” Blue Met artistic director Linda Leith thinks so: “It seems to me that we have been rather modest in refraining from claiming him,” Leith says. “Living somewhere to the age of nine is a significant stretch of time for a writer. These are the formative years for a writer, and for anyone, for that matter.”
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