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How Leonard Cohen, Graham Greene, Agatha Christie and the Ship and Anchor all fit onto the Literary Map of Calgary


Author of the article: Eric Volmers
Publishing date: Feb 19, 2021  •  February 19, 2021  •  6 minute read  • 
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In February 1978, a conference was held at the University of Calgary’s MacEwan Hall Ballroom that brought together a who’s who of CanLit luminaries.
It was called The Conference of the Canadian Novel. Mordecai Richler was there. So were Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy. Poet Earle Birney showed up. Novelists Brian Moore and W.O. Mitchell were on hand, as was legendary publisher Jack McClelland. ....

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Who Was Doris Hedges?: The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent


Ask any historian of Canadian literature to name the country’s first literary agent and the response you’ll likely get is Matie Molinaro. Founder of the Canadian Speakers’ and Writers’ Service, the Toronto-based Molinaro was at one time the only professional of her kind in the country. Her company was responsible for representing foundational CanLit authors – including Earle Birney, Harry Boyle, and Marshall McLuhan – from its establishment in 1950 through the 1970s, when other agents and authors’ representatives began to appear on the scene in force.
But McGill University professor and former publisher Robert Lecker points out that the identification of Molinaro as Canada’s first professional literary agent is incorrect. That honour goes to Doris Hedges, who in 1946 partnered with Donald Cargill Southam, of the Southam media family, and the wealthy Frenchman Jacques Teste de Merian to form what their business registration refers to as “trade and business in ....

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