Background
Leith was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and first moved to Montreal with her family in 1963.
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Linda Leith
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She studied in Paris and London and later spent two years in Budapest, Hungary.
Career
She taught in the Department of English at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. Leith spent fourteen years as president and artistic director of Blue Metropolis, the first multilingual literary festival in the world. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her "contribution to Canada" in 2012.
In 2010, Leith left Blue Metropolis, and in 2011, she founded a publishing company, Linda Leith Publishing, and the online magazine Salon.ll.
She has also published three novels: Birds of Passage, The Tragedy Queen, and The Desert Lake.
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Leith is the author of the literary history Writing in the Time of Nationalism, which The Globe and Mail called "a very fine book," "written in clear, exhilarating prose," and the memoir Marrying Hungary, as well as a study of Hugh MacLennan"s novel Two Solitudes.
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