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Eleanor Wachtel Eleanor Wachtel was born and raised in Montreal, where she studied English literature at McGill University. Wachtel lived in the United States and Kenya, and then in the mid-70s worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster in Vancouver. While there, for eight years she was theatre critic for CBC Radio's morning show. For over ten years she was one of the editors of the feminist literary quarterly, Room of One's Own, and West Coast editor of Books in Canada. Her work has also appeared in Saturday Night, Homemaker's, Chatelaine, Financial Post magazine, Canadian Living, Flare, The Capilano Review, West Coast Review, Western Living, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star. She has contributed to CBC Radio's "Sunday Morning," "Morningside," "Our Native Land" and "Audience." Eleanor Wachtel has co-edited two books: The Expo Story (1986) and Language in Her Eye (1990), and she is the co-author of A Feminist Guide to the Canadian Constitution (1992). For five years she was Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. In the fall of 1987, Wachtel moved to Toronto to work full-time as Literary Commentator on CBC Stereo's "State of the Arts," then as writer-broadcaster for "The Arts Tonight," and Toronto reporter for "The Arts Report." Since 1990 she has been host of CBC Radio's "Writers & Company" and (since 1996) of "The Arts Today." In 1993, Knopf Canada published a selection of interviews called Writers & Company; More Writers & Company was published in fall '96. She is a contributor to the bestseller, Dropped Threads (2001), co-edited by Carol Shields, and Lost Classics (2000), co-edited by Michael Ondaatje et al. In 1995, "Writers & Company" won the coveted CBC award for programming excellence for the best weekly show broadcast nationally. The judges noted that if they had to choose one hour of radio to take to a desert island it would be "Writers & Company." In 1998, "The Arts Today" won the CBC award for programming excellence for the best daily show broadcast nationally. Eleanor Wachtel has received three honorary degrees. D.Litt. (1999) from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, D.Litt. (2000) from Athabasca University, and D.Litt.(2001) from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. |
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