• Source: Newfoundland and Labrador in fiction
    • Newfoundland and Labrador has been mentioned and written about more fully by many writers.


      Newfoundland




      = Literature

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      Alligator by Lisa Moore
      The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat
      The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
      The Corrigan Women by M. T. Dohaney
      Flying over Hate by Ryan Chafe
      Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh
      Galore by Michael Crummey
      House of Hate by Percy Janes
      The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. There is mention of a character being lost off the coast of Newfoundland.
      The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston; its chief protagonist, Devlin Stead, was raised in Newfoundland by his aunt and uncle.
      Random Passage by Bernice Morgan
      Rare Birds by Edward Riche
      River Thieves by Michael Crummey
      The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx: The story centers on Quoyle, a newspaper pressroom worker from upstate New York, who returns to his ancestral home in Newfoundland.
      This All Happened by Michael Winter
      We, the Drowned (2006) by Carsten Jensen's (1952–) 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.
      The Wreckage by Michael Crummey


      In Other Languages


      Een landingspoging op Newfoundland (English: An attempt to land in Newfoundland), a book of short stories by Willem Frederik Hermans, in Dutch
      Illa dels Dimonis, a Catalan legend about a voyage to Newfoundland.


      = Film

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      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

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      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

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      Come from Away


      = Television

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


      Labrador




      = Literature

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      The Chrysalids (U.S. title: Re-Birth) by John Wyndham, 1955
      Labrador by Kathryn Davis 1988 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Reprint 2019 (Graywolf Press). Despite the title most of the action takes place in the USA.
      The Land God Gave Cain by Hammond Innes.
      Williwaw by Phyllis S. Moore (1978). A novel about the struggle of Labrador for independence.


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