Linda Leith

Hi! I'm Linda Leith, and I'm a Montreal writer. I'm also the Founder of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival and of Linda Leith Publishing | Linda Leith Éditions inc.

Welcome to my website.

My recent books have been works of literary non-fiction, the most recent being: Marrying Hungary (2008), a memoir; Writing in the Time of Nationalism (2010), a personal view of literary history; and The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life (2021). I am currently working on autobiographical fiction.

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[Linda Leith is] fearless and unstoppable.”

— Will Aitken, author of Antigone Undone

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If you liked memoirs by Diana Athill, Alexandra Fuller, and Madame de Staël, you’ll love Linda Leith’s new book.”

— Mary Soderstrom, author of Frenemy Nations and Concrete

I’m also the author of three novels: Birds of Passage, The Tragedy Queen, and The Desert Lake.

And I’ve translated two works from French into English: Travels with an Umbrella: An Irish Journey, by Louis Gauthier, and The Bigamist, by Felicia Mihali.

My bylines include The Globe and Mail, The Gazette, Literary Review of Canada, New Hungarian Quarterly, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Québec Studies, Quill & Quire, and many others.

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