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50 Love Lost and Found

Sandra Birdsell Saskatchewan	Kate Pullinger United Kingdom / Canada	Jane Urquhart Ontario
Rachel Wyatt British Columbia

Sandra Birdsell, Saskatchewan

Sandra Birdsell’s eight books have received critical acclaim, and numerous literary prizes and nominations, including a Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for The Russländer and Governor General’s Award nominations for The Two-Headed Calf and The Chrome Suite. In 1993 she was awarded one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Marion Engel Award, an honour given to a woman writer in mid-career. She was born and raised in Winnipeg, and currently lives in Saskatchewan. Her new novel is Waiting for Joe. Read more

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Kate Pullinger, United Kingdom / Canada

Kate Pullinger was born in Cranbrook, BC and moved to London, England in 1982. Her eighth and most recent novel, The Mistress of Nothing, was the winner of the 2009 Governor General’s Award for fiction. Other recent books include A Little Stranger, Weird Sister, and the short story collection, My Life as a Girl in a Men’s Prison. With director Jane Campion, she co-wrote the novelization of the film The Piano. Her digital fiction projects include the award-winning graphic novel, Inanimate Alice. Read more

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Jane Urquhart, Ontario

Jane Urquhart is the author of five previous novels, a collection of short fiction, and four books of poetry. Among the many awards and distinctions she has earned for her work are the Trillium Award, the Governor General’s Award and France’s Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Urquhart has received the Marian Engel Award, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Her new novel is Sanctuary Line. Read more

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Rachel Wyatt, British Columbia

Rachel Wyatt is an award-winning author of novels, short fiction, stage and radio plays and non-fiction works. Her six novels include The Rosedale Hoax, Foreign Bodies, and Time’s Reach. A half-dozen professional productions have been mounted of her full-length stage plays, including Crackpot and For Love or Money. She has won the CBC Literary Competition Drama Award and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2002 and the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2003. Her new novel is Letter to Omar. Read more

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Host: Rhea Tregebov
Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 10:30am
Revue Stage
$17.00

Kate Pullinger’s The Mistress of Nothing, winner of the Governor General Award in 2009, explores the subject of love complicated by duty and caste. Rachel Wyatt’s novel features a woman who writes admiring letters to film star Omar Sharif, whom she has never met and likely never will. Sandra Birdsell describes a marriage that once seemed secure, but that now is falling apart. Multiple award-winning novelist Jane Urquhart is no stranger to the subject of love in its many guises. There’s no guarantee of “happily ever after” this morning, but it will be well worth it to hear these four master storytellers talk about the emotion that drives us all.