5 Anna Porter
As oxymorons go, “millionaire Canadian book publisher” is right up there. Anna Porter, the founder and
long-time publisher of Key Porter Books, and herself a writer, will tell you, unequivocally, that the publishing
business in Canada is a beleaguered, marginal, vulnerable industry and a particularly tenuous way to make a living. We would, however, be culturally
much poorer without small Canadian publishers doing it more for love than money. Anna Porter left Key Porter after 25 years at its helm and over
40 years in the publishing business.
Her books include three popular crime novels—Hidden Agenda, Mortal Sins and Bookfair Murders—and
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust, winner of The Jewish Book Award, The Writers’ Trust Award
and a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize. The latest from the Hungary-born author is The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s
Troubled Past and Uncertain Future, winner of the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Photo: Yanka van der Kolk
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