Newfoundland and Labrador has been written about by many writers.
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.Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned' by Peter Behrens, February 22, 2011
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. The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992) by John Steffler The Lure of 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".
See also List of writers from Newfoundland and Labrador
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