Famine's Shadow ; Peter Behrens Finds Story Wealth in Irish Poverty of the 1840s Famine.
Portland Press Herald › January 01, 2007
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Peter Behrens has done all right for a first-time novelist.
Behrens' first novel, "The Law of Dreams," recently won him the 2006 Governor General's Award for Literature in Fiction. Awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts, it is Canada's oldest and most prestigious award for English- and French-language Canadian literature. Past recipients include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatjje, Alice Munro, and Rohinton Mistry.See the full content of this document
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Famine's Shadow ; Peter Behrens Finds Story Wealth in Irish Poverty of the 1840s Famine.
"The Law of Dreams" is set during the Irish famine. It was praised by the award jury for "authorial imagination and a wealth of historical detail."
A native of Canada, Behrens, 52, now lives in the Maine town of Brooklin, near Blue Hill. His essays and short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The National Post, and other publications.Q: Where did the idea for the book come from?A: I grew up in an Irish-Canad...See the full content of this document
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