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Noah Richler

Noah Richler was raised in Montreal and London, England.  He was a prize-winning producer and host of documentaries and features for BBC Radio for fourteen years before returning to Canada in 1998 to join the founding staff of the National Post, where he was the first books editor and then a literary columnist. 

He has contributed to numerous other Canadian publications including Chatelaine, the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Maisonneuve, and The Walrus; as well as to Granta, the Guardian, the Independent and the Daily Telegraph, in the United Kingdom, and to the New York Times. 

He was the host of the CBCs review, Richler on Radio, and wrote and presented a ten-part series based on his research for the book for CBC Radio One's documentary strand, Ideas. 

This Is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada, was nominated for the 2006 Nereus Writers Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.  His most recent publication is Cities, an homage to the Ontario landscape painter John Hartman. 

Richler divides his time between Toronto and the Digby Neck, Nova Scotia.

Photo Credit: Barbara Stoneham