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Merrily Weisbord is a Canadian literary non-fiction writer, documentary screenwriter and broadcaster. Her 2010 book The Love Queen of Malabar , a memoir of her longtime friendship with the late Indian writer Kamala Das , was a finalist for the 2010 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction , the QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction ...
Merrily Weisbord is the author of The Love Queen of Malabar (3.91 avg rating, 204 ratings, 16 reviews, published 2010), Dogs with Jobs (3.97 avg rating, ...
Merrily Weisbord was a finalist for the 2010 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, which is about her decade-long friendship with the beloved and controversial Indian writer.
Jan 1, 2010 · Merrily Weisbord is an award-winning Canadian author, film-maker and broadcaster. This book is the memoir of her sweet friendship with Kamala Das beginning in 1995 and lasting till her death even though events occurring after 2005 are not recorded.
Nov 19, 2010 · In 1995, Montreal writer and documentary-maker Merrily Weisbord travelled to India for the first time. Mid-career and midlife, she had given up on the memoir on which she had spent more than a...
Merrily Weisbord is the recipient of three Canada Council Awards for her nonfiction writing, most recently for From Montreal to Malabar, a journey with South Indian writer Kamala Das. A prolific and bestselling multimedia writer for more than thirty years, she has written, directed, edited, and produced for film, television, and CBC radio.
Nov 21, 2022 · As Merrily Weisbord points out several times in her book The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold War, the history of communism in Canada are still shrouded and avoided in both discussion and study, and her book sheds light on that specific history.
