May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. Throughout the month and beyond, CBC Books is highlighting books across many genres by writers of East Asian, South Asian, Western, Central and Southeast Asian descent.
The Montreal-based literary festival runs April 25-28, with online programming starting on the 14th. Wachtel hosted Writers & Company for 33 years before retiring in 2023. The show is currently airing as repeats on CBC Radio.
His beloved 10-acre property on Salt Spring Island, affectionately named Trauma Farm, inspired a memoir that won the 2009 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, one of several major literary awards he received