Catherine Lang

Award Winning Author

LATEST BOOK

Embedded

Award-winning writer and former reporter Catherine Lang wrestles with the consequences of war in the aftermath of the death of her niece Michelle Lang, who was killed while embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

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Publications, Tributes & Reviews

Here is a short list of notable writings, reviews and interviews. You can see more on the MIXED MEDIA page.

CBC RECOGNITION: 54 works of Canadian nonfiction to check out this fall

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CBC LISTEN, On The Island with Gregor Craigie
Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss and Consequence

You'll hear from Catherine Lang, who wrote the new book with that title, in an attempt to make sense of the death of her niece in Afghanistan.

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RIGHT TO LEARN.CA, A Conversation with Catherine Lang

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About Catherine Lang

Catherine studied creative writing at the University of Victoria during the 1980s, where she had the good fortune to study and learn from the likes of Jack Hodgins and Constance Rooke.

In 1988 Catherine won the Penny Wise Journalism Scholarship to attend the journalism program at Langara College, after which she moved on to community newspaper reporting and freelance writing. These endeavours led to the publication of O'Bon in Chimunesu in 1996, creative non-fiction work about the former Japanese-Canadian community in Chemainus, BC.

O'Bon in Chimunesu won the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Award in 1997. Following a stint in the treaty negotiation biz for the provincial government in Victoria for 14 years, Catherine semi-retired to work as an editor of legislative debates. The mother of two grown children, she has written a memoir about her niece, Michelle Lang, the Calgary Herald journalist killed in Afghanistan in December 2009. Published by Caitlin Press, it's titled Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss and Consequence.