Canadian writers

An Italian man admitted on Jan. 6 to stealing more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts, including from distinguished authors, solving a mystery that had rocked the literary world for years.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Oct. 17 won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," about a journalist murdered amid the country's sectarian strife.

Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati is attending the gathering of G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs in Indonesia where they seek strategies to counter the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine, inflation and other global crises.

Canada's postal service on Nov. 25 celebrated the 60-year writing career of "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood by featuring her image on a stamp.

Tyler Brûlé, editor in chief of Monocle magazine, grew up in Canada in a house full of newspapers. When he'd visit his Estonian relatives on his mother's side, the family would sit in the garden as he perused the German magazines on their coffee table inside.

Judges tore up the rule book on Oct. 15, awarding the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction jointly to Canadian author Margaret Atwood for "The Testaments" and Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other."

For the first time in its 54-year history, Paris's avant-garde Theatre du Soleil was entrusted by its founder, Ariane Mnouchkine, to another director: Canada's acclaimed Robert Lepage. "Kanata: Episode I - The Controversy" is based on the story of a French artist who was moved to paint the portraits of indigenous women murdered in the slums of Vancouver by a serial killer.