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Hinrich Alpers, laureate of the 2006 Honens International Piano Competition, has performed in recital, as soloist with orchestra and as collaborator in chamber music and lieder throughout Europe, the United States and Canada. The recipient of the 2008 Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award, Alpers made his Zankel hall at Carnegie Hall debut in March 2008. After touring Germany last spring, Alpers returned to Canada for the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival; a tour with the Tin Alley String Quartet, winner of the 2007 Banff International String Quartet Competition; and a performance with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. His first solo CD, recorded at The Banff Centre, will be released in the fall. |
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Nadeem Aslam (GRB) |
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Nadeem Aslam writes in longhand and prefers complete isolation to create his work. He was born in Pakistan and currently lives in north London. His first short story was published in a Pakistani newspaper when he was thirteen years old, shortly before his family left Pakistan and settled in West Yorkshire, England. Aslam’s latest work, The Wasted Vigil, tells the stories of five people who come together by chance — and tragically revealed circumstances — in post-9/11 Afghanistan. This is the third novel from the award-winning author, following Season of the Rainbirds and Maps for Lost Lovers, which won both the 2005 Encore Award and the 2005 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. |
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Stéphane Audeguy (FRA) |
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Stéphane Audeguy is a French novelist and essayist. His first two novels, The Theory of Clouds and The Only Son, were both popular and critical successes. Through beings both imaginary and historical, The Theory of Clouds presents the history of meteorology. Audeguy’s latest work, The Only Son, takes place during the French Revolution and is the fictional autobiography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s brother. Audeguy has received several literary awards, including Le Prix des Deux Magots and the Marie-Claire Blais prize from the Association Québec-France. He now lives and works in Paris, where he teaches cinema and literature history.
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Oana Avasilichioaei (CAN) |
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Oana Avasilichioaei has garnered siginificant national and international attention for her poetry. She has published a collection of poems, Abandon, and a collection of translations from the Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu, Occupational Sickness. She curates and coordinates the Atwater Poetry Project in Montreal, a montly poetry reading series. Avasilichioaei brings her work feria: a poempark to WordFest. Eluding boundaries of landscape, time and narrative, feria is a poetic frolic in Vancouver's Hastings Park. She holds an MA in Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University and teaches creative writing workshops at Dawson College. |
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Neil Bissoondath (CAN) |
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Neil Bissoondath exploded onto the Canadian literary scene with the debut short story collection Digging Up the Mountains. Three years later, his first full-length novel, A Casual Brutality, firmly established him as one of the country's premier talents. His vivid prose and keen eye for the complexities of the human condition brought acclaim and honour to his subsequent novels. The Worlds within Her was shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and Doing the Heart Good garnered the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Bissoondath is a professor of creative writing at Université Laval and returns to WordFest with The Soul of All Great Designs. |
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Joseph Boyden (CAN) |
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Joseph Boyden is a Canadian with Irish, Scottish and Métis roots. His new novel, Through Black Spruce, illuminates the inescapable ties of family. His first novel, Three Day Road, received the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His story collection, Born with a Tooth, was shortlisted for the Upper Canada Writers’ Craft Award. The youngest of eleven children, Boyden spent his youth poring over the pages of Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume by volume. |
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Amanda Boyden (CAN/USA) |
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Amanda Boyden entertained audiences as a trapeze artist, can-can dancer and contortionist before crafting her first novel, Pretty Little Dirty. Her second novel, Babylon Rolling, is set in New Orleans in the year leading up to Hurricane Katrina, and inhabits the lives of ordinary people in complex, intertwined stories encompassing all facets of New Orleans culture. Boyden's short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in a variety of publications including the Globe and Mail, Third Coast, Mid-American Review and Sonora Review. She teaches in the English department of the University of New Orleans. |
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Coral Bracho (MEX) |
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Coral Bracho is heralded as having changed the course of Mexican poetry with her magnificent El ser que va a morir. Her exquisite, long-lined poems explore the sensual realm where logic is disbanded and wonder is evoked. She has published eight books of poems including Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems. Published this year, it is the first body of work to be translated from the poet's Spanish collections. Among her grants and prizes she numbers the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize, the Xavier Villaurrutia Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Coral Bracho appears in cooperation with the Fondo Nacional para la cultura of Mexico. |
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Brian Brennan (CAN) |
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Brian Brennan is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, musician, and writer who specializes in the history and colourful personalities of Western Canada. Brennan spent twenty-five years writing for the Calgary Herald and now writes regularly for a variety of publications. He has made frequent appearances as a guest storyteller on CBC Radio’s Daybreak Alberta program. His new biography The Good Steward: The Ernest C. Manning Story is about the farm boy from Saskatchewan with little formal education who directed the transformation of the province from depression-era poverty to modern, oil-based affluence. |
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Cecil Castellucci (CAN) |
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Cecil Castellucci is an indie rocker, filmmaker, actress and writer whose previous books for young adults include Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool, Janes in Love and The Plain Janes, the last of which was nominated for the Joe Shuster Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer Award and was named by the American Library Association as a best book in the Great Graphic Novels for Teens category. In her latest work, Beige, Katy is sent to spend the summer with her dad, an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. A French-Canadian, Castellucci grew up in New York City and makes her home in Los Angeles. |
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Marty Chan (CAN) |
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Marty Chan is a dramatist, screenwriter, humorist and author. His novel The Mystery of the Frozen Brains won the Edmonton Book Prize, and another work, The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, was shortlisted for the 2007 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards and the 2007 Arthur Ellis Crime Writers of Canada Award in the Best Juvenile category. Chan is a regular contributor to the Edmonton Journal, and his plays have been produced across Canada and in New York. Chan is the co-creator of The Forbidden Phoenix, a martial arts musical. The Mystery of the Mad Science Teacher is the latest in his mystery series. |
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Alberto Chimal (MEX) |
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Alberto Chimal won the Premio Nacional de Cuento San Luis Potosí (National Short Story Award), the highest recognition bestowed on a short story writer in Mexico. Chimal’s work ranges from children's theatre to short fiction. His literary blog Las Historias highlights his latest work and process in both English and Spanish. While in residence at The Banff Centre, Chimal worked on his latest book Grey (The Flock), considered one of the finest books published in Mexico in 2006. Chimal holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and teaches literature and creative writing.
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Austin Clarke (CAN) |
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Austin Clarke is one of Canada’s true multicultural writers and one of the most beloved and important writers of recent years. Considered a Can Lit heavyweight, Clarke is known for his richly textured prose that mixes Canadian and Caribbean cultural nuances. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and the author of several short-story collections, memoirs and novels, including his newest work, More, and the multi-award-winning The Polished Hoe, which won the 2002 Giller Prize and the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book, and was the co-winner of the 2003 Trillium Award. He assisted in setting up the Black Studies program at Yale University and has also taught at a number of American universities. He has served as the cultural attaché to the Barbadian embassy in Washington and continues to explore his interest in politics through writing. Austin Clarke is WordFest’s 2008 Banff Distinguished Author.
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Tish Cohen (CAN) |
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Tish Cohen began writing and illustrating stories when she wanted to read her own stories to her two young boys. Since then, Cohen has written about the teen world in her Zoë Lama series and has forayed into adult fiction with Town House and Inside Out Girl. She has created and edited an online women's magazine and contributed articles to the Globe and Mail and the National Post. Her first adult novel, Town House, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, is being adapted for the screen. Cohen lives with her family in Toronto. |
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Anne Collins (CAN) |
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Anne Collins is the publisher and vice president of Random House Canada, an award-winning non-fiction writer and former magazine editor. Writers she publishes include Douglas Coupland, Richard Gwyn, Richard Florida, Graham Swift, Peter Carey, Julian Barnes, Robert Hough, Giles Blunt, Shaena Lambert, Paul Quarrington, Alissa York, Karen Connelly, Carol Off, Paul Anderson, Kenneth J. Harvey, Bonnie Stern, Kevin Patterson, Bret Hart, LGen. Romeo Dallaire and Irshad Manji |
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John Connolly (IRL) |
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John Connolly is a best selling crime fiction writer who has worked as a barman, local government official, a dogsbody at Harrods department store, and as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper, to which he still contributes. His first novel, Every Dead Thing, introduced readers to Charlie Parker, who is featured in the subsequent series. His work includes Nocturnes, a collection of novellas and short stories; a book about fairy stories, The Book of Lost Things and the stand-alone novel, Bad Men. Connolly brings the latest in the Charlie Parker series, The Reaper to WordFest. He divides his time between Dublin and the United States, the setting for all his novels. |
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Andrew Davidson (CAN) |
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Andrew Davidson toiled for seven years to complete his extraordinary debut novel, The Gargoyle, which was inspired by an image that came to him while he was teaching English in Japan. The Gargoyle is the story of a burn victim recovering in hospital who meets a schizophrenic sculptress who claims they were lovers in medieval Germany. Davidson wrote the majority of The Gargoyle in the silence and solitude that comes with nightfall, his favourite time to create. He grew up in Manitoba and has been writing for his own enjoyment since he was a teen. Rights for this debut novel have been sold to 20 countries. |
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Geoffroy de Pennart (FRA) |
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Geoffroy de Pennart travaille en indépendant en tant qu’illustrateur et graphiste pour les entreprises. Depuis 1992, il a par ailleurs réalisé une quinzaine de livres pour la jeunesse qui sont des trésors d’humour tant pour leurs mots que pour leurs illustrations. Dans ses récits, les contes de fée font de subites volte-face et sont réinventés pour se faire contemporains. Pour les enseignants, de Pennart est un auteur incontournable, du fait de ses structures narratives à répétition, de sa pointe d’humour et de son art du détail dans les illustrations. Il présentera à WordFest son seizième livre, La Princesse, le dragon et le chevalier intrépide. Geoffroy de Pennart appears with the support of the Consulate General of France in Vancouver. |
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Sylvie Desrosiers (CAN) |
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Sylvie Desrosiers est une écrivaine québécoise aux multiples facettes. Journaliste et dramaturge, elle a travaillé à la télévision, au cinéma et pour Croc, un magazine humoristique pour adultes. Elle a rédigé de nombreux ouvrages pour la jeunesse, dont la série humoristique Notdog, reconnue chez les jeunes de 9-12 ans. Desrosiers aime autant émouvoir ses lecteurs que les faire rire. Ses livres sont trè s appréciés : plusieurs de ses titres sont traduits en diverses langues et certains lui ont mérité des honneurs. Son livre le plus récent, Les Trois Lieues, relate l’aventure d’un adolescent qui risquera sa vie pour sauver celle de son père dans le Grand Nord. |
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William Deverell (CAN) |
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William Derverell's acclaimed first novel, Needles, which drew on his experiences as a criminal lawyer, won the $50,000 Seal Award. Since then he has published twelve further novels, including Trial of Passion, published in 1997, for which he won the prestigious Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing and his first Arthor Ellis Award for best crime novel. In 2006, Deverell won his Arthur Ellis Award for April Fool. He returns to WordFest with the sequel to April Fool, Kill all the Judges. He created the CBC series Street Legal, is a founder of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and has twice been chair of the Writers' Union of Canada. He winters in Costa Rica and spends his summers on Pender Island in B.C. |
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Claudia Dey (CAN) |
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Claudia Dey is a playwright and Globe and Mail advice columnist who has proved her talents extend to narrative literature with her debut novel, Stunt. The novel centres on nine-year-old Eugenia (a.k.a. Stunt) who sets out to find her father with the help of a tightrope walker. Dey's plays have been produced internationally and have been translated into French and German. Under the pseudonym, Bebe O'Shea, Dey wrote the sex column for Toro magazine. She is a graduate of McGill University and the National Theatre School where she works as a guest artist. |
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Caterina Edwards (CAN) |
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Caterina Edwards has written novels, short stories, novellas and Terra Straniera, her first play which was a success at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. She has also written a radio drama, The Great Antonio, for CBC's Sunday Showcase. Edwards began writing Finding Rosa shortly after her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Through writing this biography, she found herself on a search for the woman disappearing before her eyes and the lost history of Rosa's people. Edwards holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Alberta where she was later the Writer-in Residence. |
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Deborah Ellis (CAN) |
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Deborah Ellis has achieved international acclaim with her courageous and dramatic books that give readers a glimpse into the plight of children in developing countries. Ellis’ latest contribution, Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children, is an account of the experiences described by children whose parents are soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Ellis’s multi-award-winning work has been published in seventeen languages, and she has donated more than half a million dollars in royalties to Street Kids International and Women for Women International. Ellis lives in Simcoe, Ontario. |
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Marina Endicott (CAN) |
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Marina Endicott worked as an actor and director before she began to write fiction. Her first novel, Open Arms, was serialized on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. Her stories have been featured in Coming Attractions and short-listed for the Journey Prize and Western Magazine Awards. She’s had three plays produced, and her long poem, The Policeman’s Wife some letters, was short-listed for the national CBC Literary Awards in 2006. She brings her much-anticipated second novel, Good to a Fault, to WordFest. |
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Leif Enger (USA) |
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Leif Enger was raised in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio for nearly twenty years. His first novel, Peace Like a River, which features a modern-day Western motif, was one of Time magazine's top five novels of the year in 2001 and a New York Times bestseller, and it has been optioned for film. His new novel, So Brave, Young and Handsome, a picaresque tale of redemption and renewal amid the fading glories of the Old West, follows an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment. |
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Sheree Fitch (CAN) |
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Sheree Fitch is a multi-award-winning writer, speaker, educator and the author of twenty-three books in a variety of genres. Since the publication of her first children’s book, she has been a global ambassador for children’s literature, and has toured internationally as a visiting author, writing instructor and literacy educator. Fitch received the Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work inspirational to Canadian children, and two honorary doctorates for her contribution to Canadian literature and issues affecting women and children. Fitch brings to WordFest her first adult novel, Kiss the Joy as it Flies, as well as work from her extensive youth collection. |
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Elena Forbes (GRB) |
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Elena Forbes' debut novel Die with Me, the first in the Mark Tartaglia detective series, was published to critical acclaim and later short-listed for the 2008 Crime Writers' Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger. In Forbes' second novel, Our Lady of Pain, the victim's life is as much of a mystery as her death. Forbes earned a degree in French and Italian from Bristol University, after which she worked in portfolio management for a number of international investment groups. She now writes full-time and lives in Notting Hill where she is working on the third novel in the series. |
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Damon Galgut (SA) |
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Damon Galgut is a South African novelist, playwright and short story writer. His debut novel, A Sinless Season, was published to great success in 1984. The Good Doctor won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book) and was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Other novels include The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, Small Circle of Beings and The Quarry which was made into an award-winning feature film. Galgut's latest novel is The Imposter. |
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Steven Galloway (CAN) |
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Steven Galloway elegantly examines the dignity of humanity under the duress of war in his third and latest novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo. Set during the siege of Sarajevo, it was inspired by the true story of a cellist who witnessed a shell land in a breadline and kill twenty-two people. He vowed to sit in the hollow where the bomb fell and play Albinoni's Adagio once a day for twenty-two days as a homage to the dead. Galloway’s work has been translated into over twenty languages and has been optioned for film. The Cellist of Sarajevo follows his previous novels Finnie Walsh and Ascension. Galloway's work has been translated into over twenty languages and has been opted for film. |
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Bill Gaston (CAN) |
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Bill Gaston has written several highly praised short-fiction collections and novels, including Sex Is Red, The Good Body, Mount Appetite and Sointula. He has been nominated for a Giller Prize and was the inaugural recipient of the Timothy Findley Prize, awarded to a distinguished male writer for a stellar body of work. His short fiction has been translated into several languages, and has been published in literary journals and broadcast nationally on the CBC. Gaston’s new book, The Order of Good Cheer, was released in June of this year. He lives on Vancouver Island and teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria.
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Marie-Louise Gay (CAN) |
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Marie-Louise Gay is a renowned children’s author and illustrator. In On the Road Again! More Travels with my Family, Gay combines her talents with co-author and husband David Homel to produce their second tale of family travels. Gay has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple Governor General’s Awards and the Mr. Christie’s Book Award. Celebrated around the globe, Gay is best known for her famous Stella and Sam books, which have been published in more than fifteen languages. She lives in Montreal. |
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Charlotte Gill (CAN) |
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Charlotte Gill has planted over one million trees in twenty years and, consequently, brings much insight into the unique subculture of tree planters, the topic of her non-fiction memoir, Spade Life. Her debut collection, Ladykiller, was nominated for a Governor General's Award, and won the Danuta Gleed Award and the B.C. Book Prize for fiction. As the 2008/2009 Markin-Flanagan writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary, Gill devotes half her time to writing and half to the community, consulting with local writers and performing public readings and workshops. |
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Annie Groovie (CAN) |
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Annie Groovie, tout comme le personnage qu’elle a créé, déborde d’imagination. Après des études et une expérience dans le domaine des arts plastiques et de la communication graphique, elle vit officiellement de sa plume depuis 2006. Léon, son sympathique cyclope, porte un regard original sur le monde qui l’entoure. Léon est le protagoniste de trois collections et d’une série de dessins animés à la télévision. Les lecteurs s’amuseront beaucoup des bandes dessinées, des devinettes, des énigmes et de l’humour qui se trouvent dans les pages de Groovie. Le prochain livre d’Annie Groovie s’intitule Léon et les Olympiques. |
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Genni Gunn (CAN) |
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Genni Gunn is a writer, musician and translator. Before she turned to writing full-time, Gunn toured Canada extensively with various bands. She has published novels, short story and poetry collections, as well as an opera libretto, and has translated two collections of poems by renowned Italian author Dacia Maraini. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies, and has been translated into both Italian and Chinese. Her novel Tracing Iris has been optioned for film. Gunn comes to WordFest with her new book of poetry, Faceless, in which she explores the central metaphor of faces. |
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Rawi Hage (CAN) |
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Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but the violence and uncertainty of life there led him to eventually settle in Montreal. He is a writer, photographer and curator whose visual works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world. Hage first came to WordFest with his debut novel De Niro’s Game. Set in Beirut during the troubled early 1980s, it was written in English, his third language. Plucked from the slush pile, De Niro’s Game went on to receive the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest monetary prize for a single work of fiction in English. Hage’s new work, Cockroach, is set in contemporary Montreal and explores the immigrant experience. |
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Louise Halfe (CAN) |
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Louise Halfe, whose Cree name is Sky Dancer, has travelled across Canada and around the world sharing her work and passion for writing, the land and its people. Halfe has been a writer-in-residence at various institutes and served as Saskatchewan's first aboriginal poet laureate, travelling extensively throughout the province both in native and non-native communities, doing readings, lectures and workshops. Halfe made her debut as a poet in the acclaimed anthology Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada. She brings her third book of poetry, The Crooked Good, to WordFest. She currently lives and works in Saskatchewan, where she gives workshops on drug and addiction counselling. |
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Kenneth J. Harvey (CAN) |
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Kenneth J. Harvey is an international bestselling author who lives in a Newfoundland outport and is the author of The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, Brud and Nine-Tenths Unseen. Harvey’s works have been published in fourteen countries. He has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award and Italy's Libro Del Mare. His editorials have appeared on CBC Radio, in The Times (London) and in most major Canadian newspapers. Blackstrap Hawco, an epic family saga about Newfoundland's working class that spans 1886 to 2007, is Harvey’s latest work. |
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Drew Hayden Taylor (CAN) |
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Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibway from Ontario’s Curve Lake First Nations and one of Canada's leading Aboriginal playwrights, humourists and a self-described contemporary story teller. Taylor's career has spanned everything from journalism to scriptwriting, to working on documentaries exploring the Native experience. Through his books, most notably his Funny, You Don’t Look Like One series, Taylor has tried to educate and inform the world about issues that affect the lives of Canada's First Nations. Taylor recently released Me Sexy, an anthology exploring Native sexuality and The Night Wanderer; a gothic novel for young teens about a vampire returning to his tribal home after centuries spent in Europe. |
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Lee Henderson (CAN) |
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Lee Henderson is a journalist, curator, novelist and the author of the award-winning short story collection The Broken Record Technique. His short story “Sheep Dub” was featured in the Journey Prize Stories, an anthology of stories long-listed for the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. He has curated exhibitions in Vancouver and New York, and is the director and curator of Attaché Gallery, a portable art gallery for emerging artists. His new book, The Man Game, interweaves two stories that involve the unknown sport of artistic acrobatic wrestling played and bet upon in the backstreets of nineteenth century Vancouver. |
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David Homel (CAN) |
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David Homel is an award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and Governor General's Award winning translator. His novels Electrical Storms, Rat Palms, Sonya & Jack and Get on Top have been published in several languages; The Speaking Cure won the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2003 and the Jewish Public Library Award for fiction in 2004. With the recent feature film Great North, he adds screenwriter to his list of accomplishments. In On the Road Again!: More Travels with My Family, Homel combines his talents with co-author, wife and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay to produce their second tale of family travels. |
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Chris Humphreys (CAN) |
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Chris (C.C.) Humphreys is an actor, playwright and novelist, a former fencing champion and a fight choreographer who pours his love for history and bladed weaponry into his swashbuckling novels. Humphreys is well known for his historical fiction novels, which have been translated into Russian, Italian, German, Greek and Czech. The Last Confession, a tale about a crusader named Dracula who single-handedly took on the mighty Turks and nearly defeated them, is his latest novel for adults. Possession, Humphrey’s latest addition to his Runestone saga trilogy for young adults, is a heady brew of Norse myth, runic magic and time travel. |
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Hazel Hutchins (CAN) |
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Hazel Hutchins has written many books for children that can be found all over the world. She has been awarded the Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Children's Literature and has been nominated for the Governor General's and Mr. Christie’s Awards. Hazel returns to WordFest with three children’s stories, TJ and the Quiz Kids, Mattland, co-authored with Gail Herb |