:Newfoundland and Labrador in fiction
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Newfoundland and Labrador has been mentioned and written about more fully by many writers.
Newfoundland
=Literature=
- Alligator by Lisa Moore[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0887841953 Amazon.ca's page on Lisa Moore's Alligator]
- 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[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0385663145 Amazon.ca's page on Michael Crummey's Galore in which Newfoundland is clearly mentioned.]
- 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.[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/067697533X Amazon.ca's page on Wayne Johnston's Navigator of New York]
- 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.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]
- 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
- {{ILL|Illa dels Dimonis|ca}}, a Catalan legend about a voyage to Newfoundland.
=Film=
=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=
=Television=
Labrador
=Literature=
- The Chrysalids (U.S. title: Re-Birth) by John Wyndham, 1955The Chrysalids : Wikipedia's own article; a post-apocalyptic rural Labrador is mentioned.
- 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.[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.]