Will Aitken
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About
Novelist, arts journalist and film critic who was the cofounder of Montreal's first LGBT bookstore, Librairie L'Androgyne, in 1973. He has worked as a journalist and film critic for media outlets such as the BBC, National Public Radio, The Globe and Mail and the National Post. He has published four novels. His 2018 book, Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove and the Art of Resistance, was a shortlisted finalist for that year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Before Fame
He moved from Terra Haute to Montreal in 1972 to attend McGill University. He published his first novel, Terra Haute, in 1989. He taught film studies at Dawson College.
Trivia
His other novels include A Visit Home, Realia and The Swells, the last of which was published in 2021. He is author of the anthology Madder Love: Queer Men, and the Precincts of Surrealism. He wrote the 1996 film Rowing Through, starring Colin Ferguson and Leslie Hope.
Family Life
He was born in Terra Haute, Indiana.
Associated With
In 2011 he published the nonfiction work, Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic. It was a critical analysis of Luchino Visconti's film, Death in Venice.
