Newfoundland and Labrador in fiction

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
• Illa dels Dimonis [ca], 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. Amazon.ca's page on Lisa Moore's Alligator
2. Amazon.ca's page on Michael Crummey's Galore in which Newfoundland is clearly mentioned.
3. 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 [1]
5. The Chrysalids : Wikipedia's own article; a post-apocalyptic rural Labrador is mentioned.
6. 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.