Wednesday, October 17 - Event
The Alma Lee Opening Night Event |
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Grand Openings |
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Kiran Desai |
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*The programming details of this event have changed since the Festival Program was printed: It's opening night at the Writers Festival, and the Festival's Artistic Director Hal Wake introduces seven fine writers. Among them, they have won the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Leacock Medal, the impac Dublin Literary Award—and have been nominated for all the rest. Kiran Desai reads from The Inheritance of Loss, for which she won the Booker Prize. Canada's Will Ferguson has his eye on con artists in Spanish Fly. New Zealand's Lloyd Jones tackles the imaginative power of literature in Mister Pip, set in civil war-torn Papua New Guinea. Claire Keegan brings her unmistakable Irish voice to her second collection of short stories. You'll want to hear short story writer Vincent Lam, who became a household name in Canada after he won the Giller Prize for Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. No stranger to Vancouver audiences, Alistair MacLeod reads from his short story collection, Island, set in majestic Cape Breton Island. Helen Oyeyemi, who straddles two lives in Nigeria and the UK, reads from her second novel, The Opposite House. These writers will open the Festival in grand style. |
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This event is sponsored by Random House of Canada Ltd. |
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