Leonard Cohen

The Favourite Game is the first novel by Leonard Cohen. It was first published by Secker and Warburg in the fall of 1963. In 1959, Cohen was awarded a $2,000 Canada Council grant, which he used to live cheaply in London and on the Greek island of Hydra while he wrote the novel, then titled Beauty at Close Quarters. …

Beautiful Losers is the second novel by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen. It was published in 1966, before he began his career as a singer-songwriter, and Cohen has yet to publish another. Set in the Canadian province of Quebec, the story of 17th-century Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha is interwoven with a …