CBC’s Shelagh Rogers to air interview with CB author

CBC’s Shelagh Rogers to air interview with CB author

An interview with one of Cape Breton’s best-loved writers will be featured on CBC Radio One’s The Next Chapter on the program’s two weekly airings February 22 and 27.

CBC personality Shelagh Rogers recorded the interview with Inverness native Frank Macdonald last fall.

Author of A Forest for Calum (CBU Press, 2005), Macdonald was the longtime editor and publisher of the award-winning Inverness Oran weekly newspaper, until his retirement in 2009.

Macdonald continues to write a column for the paper, but now devotes his time to writing, including a book for young readers forthcoming from Cape Breton University Press in June 2010.

A Forest for Calum was long listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest and most international prize of its kind, as well as the Dartmouth Book Award.

Identified as “a Canadian classic” by Globe and Mail reviewer, and “jaw-droppingly beautiful” by another, Macdonald’s world-class novel continues to move readers around the world.

The Next Chapter airs Mondays 1-2 p.m. and Saturdays 4-5 p.m. on CBC Radio One. You can also access a podcast of the program at: http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/podcast.html

Feature interview with Frank Macdonald

Frank Macdonald, author of the acclaimed novel A Forest for Calum, will appear on CBC Halifax's Nunn on One, at midnight, January 22-23 on CBC TV in Nova Scotia http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/nunn_on_one

A Forest for Calum still charming audiences

Frank Macdonald will be giving a talk to Alexander MacLeod's Atlantic Literature course at Saint Mary's University on June 3.

On May 27, the regular book panel of CBC Radio One's Mainstreet (Halifax), met with guest host Stephanie Domet to discuss A Forest for Calum. The panel recalled the Globe and Mail review of 2005, which suggested that "if there is any justice ... A Forest for Calum would be a Canadian classic."

Panelists were 100 per cent in agreement that, on all aspects of the book, it deserved such a billing.

Fans might recall that critic Ron Foley MacDonald said A Forest for Calum had one of the most "jaw-droppingly beautiful" literary devices in English-language literature.