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Firelight Interview Series: Tanis Rideout
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Who are you?
I’m an author who’s written poetry and fiction and the occasional piece about water and the environment. I’ve written one novel – Above All Things, based on George Mallory’s final expedition to Mt. Everest, and most recently a collection of poetry called Arguments with the Lake, based around Marilyn Bell’s swim across Lake Ontario. I’m the Poet Laureate of Lake Ontario.
How did your book inform you?
It’s funny, because obviously a writer informs their book. Their beliefs, thoughts, ideas consciously or unconsciously find their way into the work, but I was much more surprised that working on Above All Things informed and changed me.
When I began to write I pretty much hated physical activity and the cold and knew nothing about climbing or endurance sports.
Over the course of the novel I began climbing once in a while at the gym, initially as research, to see how it felt – but it turned out t
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Tanis Rideout: On writing about real people
If you could, would you rather meet and talk to George or Ruth Mallory about your book? Do you think Marilyn or Shirley has read your poems? How do you think they’d feel?
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Tanis Rideout is the author of the best-selling novel Above All Things and a new collection of poetry Arguments with the Lake. She will be guest editing The Afterword all this week.
If you could, would you rather meet and talk to George or Ruth Mallory about your book? Do you think Marilyn Bell or Shirley Campbell has read your poems? How do you think they’d feel?
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Both my recently published books – Above All Things, a novel about George Mallory’s expedition to Mt. Everest and the wife he leaves behind and Arguments with the Lake, a collection of poems inspired by Marilyn Bell’s swim across Lake Ontario in the s, are based on real people, on actual events. As a result I’ve been getting asked questions like
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Tanis Rideout Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Tanis Rideout Biography
Tanis Rideout&#;s work has appeared in numerous publications and has been shortlisted for several prizes, including the Bronwen efternamn Memorial Award and the CBC Literary Awards. Born in Belgium, she grew up in Bermuda and in Kingston, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto. Above All Things fryst vatten her first novel.
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