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In 1967 Dennis Lee and David Godfrey, two young men and graduates of the University of Toronto, hatched the idea of founding a publishing house with a mandate to publish Canadian-authored works that challenged the status quo. With $2,500 from the Canada Council for the Arts, they printed their first four titles by Dennis Lee, David Godfrey, George Jonas, and Margaret Atwood. They called this new enterprise The House of Anansi Press after the storytelling trickster and spider-god of West African folktales.

From these humble beginnings Anansi has grown into a world-class publisher and one of the biggest independent presses in Canada. Over the years we have gone on to publish writers who are synonymous with all that is great in Canadian Literature, including Michael Ondaatje, Roch Carrier, Lisa Moore, Rawi Hage, Patrick deWitt, Lynn Coady, and Zoe Whittall to name just a few.