Something I didn’t know: Liberal party leadership hopeful Michael Ignatieff is a Booker-nominated novelist! CBC.ca Arts has an interesting article on politicians who write.

But…surely there are many more than the five they mention in the article! What about the prolific Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who ran for President of Peru? His opponents read racy excerpts of his works to try to scandalize the voting public (and apparently it worked). Or the last President of Czechoslovakia first President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel?

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