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19th Annual
A World of Words
October 17th-22nd 2006
La Joie de Lire
19th Annual Vancouver International Writers Festival
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Sunday, October 22

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Memory Lane

Robert Drewe
Ryan Knighton
Mandy Sayer
Linda Spalding
Moderator: Brenda Berck
1:30?3:00 PM
Waterfront Theatre
$13 + $.50 facility surcharge

Memoirs have run the gamut from outright invention to slavish devotion to fact. Four authors discuss the challenges they face as they put their memories on paper and turn them into compelling non-fiction. How accurately can anyone describe the events that shaped their lives? What is the balance between taking liberties in recreating an event and personal responsibility to record? What are the challenges of writing a memoir? And what does the memoirist learn about his or her self by recreating the past?