"Ann Charney writes with wisdom and candour, and without a trace of affectation." - Radio Canada
Publications
Here you can find some quick links to Ann's work.

Nerina, a young woman living in Venice after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, is looking for a way to move to...

It’s Montreal, 1953, and eight-year-old Ellen, an only child prone to daydreaming, and her mother, a woman who believes in the promise of fresh starts, have moved into a large house on the flanks of Mt. Royal. To make ends meet, Ellen’s mother takes in a group of refugees...

“By the time I was five years old, I had spent half my life hidden away in a barn loft.” So begins a Jewish girl’s account of her childhood amid the ruins of World War II. The time is 1944, the setting a Polish town which has just been...

A crisp March morning in the Buttes-Chaumont park in Paris. Claire, waiting to meet her husband, Adrian, has more than a tourist’s passing interest in the place. She has come to France to be with Adrian while he researches a book on French gardens, but Claire’s real mission is...

These six stories are about real people—Pierre Vallières, Paul Rose, the Mohawks, Paolo Violi, Claude Jutra, and Jean Castonguay. Each in turn exhibits an acute discomfort with the world as it is, a fierce resistance against the passivity and apathy that drags at life’s coat-tails, and an inclination—nourished by...
From the Blog
May 26, 2014 |
Pre-StoryFest event in Hudson, Quebec with Linda Leith
Meet the Author event: Ann Charney interviewed by Linda Leith Sunday June 1st at 2 p.m. at St Mary’s Hall Presented by Quebec Writers’ Federation and Greenwood Living History Centre 254 Main Road, Hudson Book-signing will follow with copies of LIFE CLASS made available by Clio Books http://www.greenwood-centre-hudson.org/storyfest.html...
February 26, 2014 |
Friday, March 14th, I’ll be reading at the launch party for the Spring issue of the Montreal Review of Books
Join me at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly on Friday, March 14th at 7.p.m. You can join the event here and invite your friends to come as well. I look forward to seeing you!...
October 9, 2013 |
Book Launch
Please join us on Thursday, November 7th, from 6-8pm to celebrate the launch of “Life Class” by Ann Charney in the bookstore at The Canadian Center for Architecture. 1920 Rue Baile, Montreal,...