Newfoundland and Labrador in fiction

Newfoundland and Labrador has been written about by many writers. ^[1]

Newfoundland

Literature

• Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club (2019) by Megan Gail Coles
• River Thieves (2001), Galore (2009), Sweetland (2014), The Innocents (2019), The Adversary (2023) and others by Michael Crummey
• The Corrigan Women (1988) by M. T. Dohaney
• The Eyes of the Gull (1936) and others by Margaret Duley
• Come, Thou Tortoise (2009) by Jessica Grant
• Blackstrap Hawco (2008) by Kenneth J. Harvey
• Down to the Dirt (2005), We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017) and others by Joel Thomas Hynes
• House of Hate (1970) by Percy Janes
• The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998), The Navigator of New York (2002) and others by Wayne Johnston
• Gaff Topsails (1996) by Patrick Kavanagh
• Alligator (2005), February (2009), Caught (2013) and others by Lisa Moore
• Random Passage (1992), Waiting for Time (1994) and Cloud of Bone (2007) by Bernice Morgan
• The Boat Who Wouldn't Float (1969) by Farley Mowat
• The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx
• Rare Birds (2001) and The Nine Planets (2004) by Edward Riche
• Annabel (2010) by Kathleen Winter
• This All Happened (2000), The Big Why (2004) and others by Michael Winter

In other languages

• Een landingspoging op Newfoundland (1957) by Willem Frederik Hermans. "An Attempt to Land in Newfoundland", a book of short stories in Dutch.
• Vi, de druknede (2006) by Carsten Jensen. "We, the Drowned" includes a voyage, in the 1920s, by a Danish sailing schooner, from Iceland to the Dominion of Newfoundland to collect salt fish for Portugal from an outport. ^[2]

Short mentions

• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas Hardy. There is mention of a character being lost off the coast of Newfoundland.
• Isle of Demons, a Catalan legend about a voyage to Newfoundland.

Film

• The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
• Bayo
• Black Conflux
• Cast No Shadow
• Crown and Anchor
• The Divine Ryans
• Down to the Dirt
• Extraordinary Visitor
• The Grand Seduction
• Hunting Pignut
• John and the Missus
• The King Tide
• Rare Birds
• Riverhead
• The Rowdyman
• Secret Nation
• The Shipping News
• Sweetland
• Violet

Radio

• Tales from Pigeon Inlet as told by Uncle Mose, played by Ted Russell and set in the fictional outport of Pigeon Inlet was a very popular and comedic radio broadcast in Newfoundland which later spurred a TV show.
• The Great Eastern was a comedy series on CBC Radio, presented in the format of a radio news magazine series produced by the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland.

Theatre

• Come from Away
• Jacob's Wake by Michael Cook
• West Moon by Al Pittman

Television

• CODCO
• Dooley Gardens
• Gullage's
• Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
• Little Dog
• Rabbittown
• Republic of Doyle
• Total Drama World Tour

Labrador

Literature

• Labrador (1988) by Kathryn Davis. Despite the title most of the action takes place in the United States.
• Woman of Labrador (1973) by Elizabeth Goudie
• Tales of the Labrador (1916) by Wilfred Grenfell
• White Eskimo: A Novel of Labrador (1972) by Harold Horwood
• The Land God Gave to Cain (1958) by Hammond Innes
• The Long Crossing and Other Labrador Stories (1992) by Elliott Merrick
• Williwaw (1978) by Phyllis S. Moore. A novel about the struggle of Labrador for independence. ^[3]
• The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992) by John Steffler
• The Lureof the Labrador Wild (1905) by Dillon Wallace
• The Chrysalids (1955) by John Wyndham

In other languages

• Fortællinger fra Labrador (1923) by Aksel Sandemose. "Tales from Labrador".

References

1. Sugars, Cynthia Conchita (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-994186-5.
2. Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned' by Peter Behrens, February 22, 2011
3. Moore, P. S. (Phyllis S. ) (1978). Williwaw. Internet Archive. St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater Books. ISBN   978-0-919948-54-9.