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From: emneufeld@watdragon.UUCP (Eric Neufeld)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Saskatchewan writers
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 13:01:07 EST
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As a recently transplanted Saskatchewanian, I have thought of building up a
collection of Saskatchewan books, concentrating on short stories and novels.

While most provinces have literary journals which publish material
of uneven quality (for example, "Grain" magazine in Saskatchewan), I am
presented interested in a bibliography of works by "successful" (from the
point of view of the critics or the public) writers.

Of course I have the following:
		W.O. Mitchell (don't much like his work, but a must
			       for a collection)
		Guy VanderHaeghe
		Sinclair Ross
I have no bibliography for
		Ken Mitchell
who used to publish comical plays and fiction ("The Meadowlark Connection").

I am interested in reviews of the recently published work of
		David Carpenter

Any other comments on interesting Saskatchewn authours would be appreciated,
regardless of obscurity.

I can already hear the snickers from the metropolises (sp?); however, I know
there are voracious readers out there who can help me out.

Thanks.  Eric Neufeld.  Please reply directly and not to this group.

PS.  There is no shortage of self-deprecating, dated works (currently
popular is Ron Marken's Easterner's Guide to Western Canada).  I am less
interested in these kind of books than I am in literature.  Also, I am
concentrating on Saskatchewan rather than Manitoba and Alberta, though all
correspondence is welcomed.