Newfoundland and Labrador in fiction explained

Newfoundland and Labrador has been mentioned and written about more fully by many writers.

Newfoundland

Literature

• Alligator by Lisa Moore^[1]
• 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^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• 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
• , 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

Television

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

Labrador

Literature

• The Chrysalids (U.S. title: Re-Birth) by John Wyndham, 1955^[5]
• 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.^[6]

References

1. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0887841953 Amazon.ca's page on Lisa Moore's Alligator
2. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0385663145 Amazon.ca's page on Michael Crummey's Galore in which Newfoundland is clearly mentioned.
3. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/067697533X Amazon.ca's page on Wayne Johnston's Navigator of New York
4. Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned' by Peter Behrens, February 22, 2011 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022104508.html
5. [The Chrysalids|The Chrysalids : Wikipedia's own article; a post-apocalyptic rural Labrador is mentioned.]
6. http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/jwmah/8963.shtml Williwaw - MOORE, PHYLLIS S. : a page by AntiQbook in which the contents of the book are summarized; the intent is to sell the book so this page may be temporary.