Penguin Anthology Of Canadian Humour

The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour brings together a diverse and entertaining collection of the best humour writing. These seventy-one distinctly Canadian selections from fifty-four extraordinary writers represent over a century's worth of accomplishments in this unique literary genre.

That gap between what we assume life will bring and how things actually turn out, between what we want and what we get, between our grand plans and high expectations and what is actually accomplished. It is there that humour is fostered, is born.

Will Ferguson's marvelous anthology features humour pieces from early twentieth-century writers such as Bob Edwards and Stephen Leacock, who defined the very essence of humour. Ferguson also includes a wide selection of writing by some of our best-known authors from throughout the twentieth century to the present: Robertson Davies, Douglas Coupland, Mavis Gallant, Thomas King, W.P. Kinsella, Stuart McLean, Paul Quarrington, and Miriam Toews, to name a few. Also included are authors who, while perhaps not as well known, deserve to be much more widely read, such as Ivan E. Coyote and Mariko Tamaki.

Selected and introduced by award-winning author Will Ferguson, The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour is the definitive collection of Canada's best humour writing.

Contributors:

Dave Bidini
Arthur Black
Marsha Boulton
Max Braithwaite
Chuck Brown
Roch Carrier
Douglas Coupland
Ivan E. Coyote
Herb Curtis
Robertson Davies
Bob Edwards
M.A.C. Farrant
Ian Ferguson
Will Ferguson
Jacques Ferron
Mavis Gallant
Zsuzsi Gartner
Charles Gordon
Ray Guy
Paul Hiebert
Donald Jack
Thomas King
W. P. Kinsella
Jack Knox
Dany Laferrière
Gary Lautens
Stephen Leacock
Antonine Maillet
James Martin
Stuart McLean
Richard J. Needham
Dan Needles
Eric Nicol
Brian O'Connell
Noreen Olson
Patricia Pearson
Laurence J. Peter
John Porteous
Jacques Poulin
Paul Quarrington
David Rakoff
Bill Richardson
Mordecai Richler
Erika Ritter
Robert W. Service
Sandra Shamas
Antanas Sileika
Joey Slinger
Mariko Tamaki
William J. Thomas
Miriam Toews
Morley Torgov
Stuart Trueman
Nancy White

Will Ferguson's debut novel, Happiness^TM, has been published in thirty-three countries and twenty-six languages around the world. It was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canada and the Caribbean: First Novel) and went on to win the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. With his brother Ian, he wrote the wildly successful humour book How to Be a Canadian, which won the CBA Libris Award for Non-fiction Book of the Year. Will's travel memoir Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw was an immediate bestseller and won Ferguson his second Leacock Medal for Humour. His most recent book is Hitching Rides with Buddha: A Journey Across Japan. Will lives in Calgary with his wife and their two young sons.