Newfoundland and Labrador in fiction
Newfoundland and Labrador has been mentioned and written about more fully by many writers.
Newfoundland
[edit]Literature
[edit]- Alligator by Lisa Moore[1]
- The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
- The Corrigan Women by M. T. Dohaney
- Flying over Hate by Ryan Chafe
- Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh
- Galore by Michael Crummey[2]
- House of Hate by Percy Janes
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. There is mention of a character being lost off the coast of Newfoundland.
- The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston; its chief protagonist, Devlin Stead, was raised in Newfoundland by his aunt and uncle.[3]
- Random Passage by Bernice Morgan
- Rare Birds by Edward Riche
- River Thieves by Michael Crummey
- The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx: The story centers on Quoyle, a newspaper pressroom worker from upstate New York, who returns to his ancestral home in Newfoundland.
- This All Happened by Michael Winter
- We, the Drowned (2006) by Carsten Jensen's (1952–) includes a voyage, in the 1920s, by a Danish sailing schooner, from Iceland to the Dominion of Newfoundland to collect salt fish for Portugal from an outport.[4]
- The Wreckage by Michael Crummey
In Other Languages
[edit]- Een landingspoging op Newfoundland (English: An attempt to land in Newfoundland), a book of short stories by Willem Frederik Hermans, in Dutch
- Illa dels Dimonis, a Catalan legend about a voyage to Newfoundland.
Film
[edit]- The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
- Bayo
- Black Conflux
- Cast No Shadow
- Crown and Anchor
- The Divine Ryans
- Down to the Dirt
- Extraordinary Visitor
- The Grand Seduction
- Hunting Pignut
- John and the Missus
- The King Tide
- Rare Birds
- Riverhead
- The Rowdyman
- Secret Nation
- The Shipping News
- Sweetland
- Violet
Radio
[edit]- Tales from Pigeon Inlet as told by Uncle Mose, played by Ted Russell and set in the fictional outport of Pigeon Inlet was a very popular and comedic radio broadcast in Newfoundland which later spurred a TV show.
- The Great Eastern was a comedy series on CBC Radio, presented in the format of a radio news magazine series produced by the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland.
Theatre
[edit]Television
[edit]- CODCO
- Dooley Gardens
- Gullage's
- Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
- Little Dog
- Rabbittown
- Republic of Doyle
- Total Drama World Tour
Labrador
[edit]Literature
[edit]- The Chrysalids (U.S. title: Re-Birth) by John Wyndham, 1955[5]
- Labrador by Kathryn Davis 1988 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Reprint 2019 (Graywolf Press). Despite the title most of the action takes place in the USA.
- The Land God Gave Cain by Hammond Innes.
- Williwaw by Phyllis S. Moore (1978). A novel about the struggle of Labrador for independence.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Amazon.ca's page on Lisa Moore's Alligator
- ^ Amazon.ca's page on Michael Crummey's Galore in which Newfoundland is clearly mentioned.
- ^ Amazon.ca's page on Wayne Johnston's Navigator of New York
- ^ Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned' by Peter Behrens, February 22, 2011 [1]
- ^ The Chrysalids : Wikipedia's own article; a post-apocalyptic rural Labrador is mentioned.
- ^ Williwaw - MOORE, PHYLLIS S. : a page by AntiQbook in which the contents of the book are summarized; the intent is to sell the book so this page may be temporary.