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In order to publish works by Canadian authors, writers Dennis Lee and David Godfrey established the House Of Anansi in 1967. The West African spider god Kwaku Anansi, one of the most revered folk figures in history, is responsible for the name Anansi. Godfrey, a young teacher in Ghana, have admiration for the world's creator, a wise but cunning joker. The two gave their publishing endeavor the moniker House of Anansi Press in homage to the diminutive but formidable spider god and as a dig at another "House" of publishing. House Of Anansi began publishing authors including Matt Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Northrop Frye, Austin Clarke, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Daphne Marlatt, Roch Carrier, and Margaret Atwood in order to stay loyal to the spirit of Anansi, its worldwide, boundary-pushing namesake (who also worked for the press as an editor).