Audio Archives

Photo credit: Tim Matheson 2009 The VWF presents audio archives of Festival events with Canadian and international writers. Each event listed below has a short ‘teaser’ clip you can listen to for a taste of the full recording. Click on the Listen to the Full Recording >> next to each event for the full audio segment and to read more about the event and the writer.

A new archive recording will be added each week leading up to the 2012 Vancouver Writers Fest in October. Please check back regularly to listen to highlights of Festivals-past.

Listing of Audio Archives available:

Michael Chabon

Sometimes, the setting for a novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author is their own life’s backdrop.

Recorded at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church on Wednesday, September 26, 2012.

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And Introducing: Michael Christie, Rosemary Nixon, Thomas Pletzinger & Harry Whitehead

Oh, the prospect of freshly published talent! Bask in the glow of four writers whose work has finally come to be read.

Recorded at the Revue Stage on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.

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Land of Plenty: Peter Behrens, Clark Blaise & Ling Zhang

Amongst the promise of new land and a chance to plant new roots, these fiction writers illuminate the personal and cultural conflicts inherent in stories of immigration.

Recorded at Studio 1398 on Friday, October 21, 2011.

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Lovers in a Dangerous Time: Esi Edugyan, Gayla Reid & Antanas Sileika

Love amongst war makes for passionate, pressured characters and an insight to how conflict shapes our lives.

Recorded at the Revue Stage on Saturday, October 22, 2011.

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Clark Blaise and Rudy Weibe in Conversation

If age and experience are any indicators of curiosity, then just listening to these two authors will get you thinking.

Recorded at Studio 1398 on Saturday, October 22, 2011.

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Gold Diggers: Charlotte Gray

Desperados, dance-hall girls, miners and churchmen – Charlotte Gray introduces us to some colour characters who couldn’t resist the call to the Klondike.

Recorded at Studio 1398 on Thursday, October 21, 2010.

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The Life and Times of Mordecai Richler: Charles Foran

Charles Foran delivers us a treat as he discusses with Bill Richardson the man who was the lion of Canadian literature.

Recorded at the Revue Stage on Friday, October 22, 2010.

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Bamboo Lettering: Kevin Chong, Jen Sookfong Lee & Ling Zhang

Does your heritage affect how and what you write? For some “Chinese Canadian” authors, the answer is undeniably tense.

Recorded at the Revue Stage on Saturday, October 22, 2011.

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An Intimate Evening with Yann Martel

What happens when government doesn’t value culture? Yann Martel speaks about his attempt to educate Prime Minister Harper on the concept of stillness.

Recorded at Studio 1398 October 22, 2010.

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Richard Ford

To Richard Ford, Canada is not just the name of our country but a landscape to tell great fiction.

Recorded at Frederic Wood Theatre on Monday, May 28, 2012.

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