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France Adams (Francais)
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Mère de deux jeunes garçons, enseignante et orthopédagogue, FRANCE ADAMS vit pleinement son rêve d'enfant : raconter et écrire des histoires. Elle a publié plusieurs nouvelles dans des anthologies, un récit épistolaire avec Bertrand Nayet et Charles Leblanc, Voyages en papier (Blé, 2003), ainsi que des livres pour enfants, Du pain, du lait, des oeufs, du beurre (Plaines, 2004) et Regarde par-ci! Regarde par-là! Regarde partout! (Plaines 2005). Elle lance, lors du Festival, un troisième album jeunesse, illustré par Janet La France, intitulé Les étrangers (Plaines, 2007).
Foyer des écrivains (29 sep), Écrivains dans les écoles |
Gil Adamson
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GIL ADAMSON has published two startling poetry collections, Primitive and Ashland, as well as an acclaimed collection of linked stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. She cites as her influences Michael Ondaatje, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Mark Richard, and her writing shows a similar attention to craft and a willingness to explore characters who are both brilliant and alienated. Her first novel, The Outlander (Anansi), is an Adamson take on the western, following a young woman at the turn of the 20th century as she flees from desperate circumstances toward
Frank AB, home of the massive landslide. Adamson lives in Toronto.
Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 24); Mainstage (Sept 24) |
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
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KATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMM is an Anishnaabe writer, spoken word artist, publisher, emerging video producer and director, and Indigenous arts advocate of mixed ancestry from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation in southwestern Ontario. Her writing appears in my heart is a stray bullet, the chapbook bloodriver woman, and in many anthologies, journals, and magazines in Canada, the US, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, France, Italy, Germany and Ireland. In 2000, she co-edited the award-winning skins: contemporary Indigenous writing, and more recently, Without Reservation, an anthology of erotica by Indigenous writers. She appears on standing ground and other CDs, and collaborates frequently with choreographers, hip hop artists, musicians, and other artists. Akiwenzie-Damm lives in Cape Croker ON.
Rural Tour (Oct 24) |
Joanne Arnott
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JOANNE ARNOTT is a writer and cultural worker living in Richmond BC. Her first book, Wiles of Girlhood, won The League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award in 1992. Later titles include Breasting the Waves: On Writing and Healing, a collection of creative essays, and Steepy Mountain: love poetry (Kegedonce). She has been collaborating with other authors and artists to sponsor workshops and events that bring out the voices of Aboriginal mothers and grandmothers, speaking for themselves. Her 2007 collection, Mother Time: Poems New and Selected (Ronsdale), is her sixth book.
Rural Tour (Oct 28-30) |
Shauna Singh Baldwin
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SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN has garnered critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, the UK, and India. Her fiction and short stories, English Lessons and Other Stories, What the Body Remembers, and The Tiger Claw, have been recognized with numerous awards, including India's Shastri Award, the Friends of American Writers Award, the Writer's Union of Canada Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean). The stories in her new collection, We Are Not in Pakistan (Goose Lane), migrate from Central America to the American South, from Toronto to the Ukraine, and feature an unforgettable cast of characters. Singh Baldwin lives in Milwaukee.
Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 24); Mainstage (Sept 24); Nooner (Sept 25) |
Pamela Banting
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PAMELA BANTING was born and raised in Manitoba's Swan River Valley, and is currently at work on a book about that area of the province. She has published poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, is the author of Body Inc., and edited Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape, an anthology of fifty contemporary western-Canadian writers writing about nature, the environment, landscape and sense of place. Her work will appear in A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing, forthcoming this fall from the Manitoba Writers' Guild. Banting teaches in the English Department at the University of Calgary and lives in Cochrane AB.
Opening Night (Sept 23); Campus Program (Sept 25) |
David Bergen
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DAVID BERGEN is the author of four novels: A Year of Lesser, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; See the Child; The Case of Lena S., winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction; and his most recent, The Time in Between, which won the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize, The McNally Robinson Book of the Year and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. In 2000, Bergen won the Canadian Literary Award for Short Story. His new novel, The Retreat, will be published in fall 2008. Bergen lives in Winnipeg.
Mainstage (Sept 30) |
BathÉLemy Bolivar (Francais)
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Né en 1975 à Saint-Louis du Nord en Haïti, BATHÉLEMY BOLIVAR a principalement vécu à Cap Haïtien. En 2000, il entreprend des études d'informatique en Floride avant d'immigrer au Manitoba en octobre 2002, où il poursuit une carrière d'enseignant. Il est récipiendaire du prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault de 2007 pour son premier recueil de poésie, manguiers têtus (Éditions du Blé, 2005). Il est également auteur de Re-bondir (Trois-Rivières, Le Sabord, 2007).
Foyer des écrivains (26 sep); Foyer des écrivains (28 sep) |
Lois Braun
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LOIS BRAUN was born on a grain farm in southern Manitoba and studied at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. Her debut collection of stories, A Stone Watermelon, was recognized with a Governor General's Award nomination, and her reputation has been confirmed with subsequent publications: The Pumpkin Eaters, The Montreal Cats, and now The Penance Drummer (Turnstone). Exquisitely crafted, tender, and unsentimental, Braun's stories capture the texture of her rural Manitoba experience. Braun lives in Altona MB.
Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 25); Campus Program (Sept 25); Campus Program (Sept 26) |
Alison Calder
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ALISON CALDER lives in Winnipeg, where she teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba. She is the editor of Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn, and a critical edition of Frederick Philip Grove's 1925 novel Settlers of the Marsh, and co-editor of History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies. She is the past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for poetry. A poetry chapbook, Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems, co-authored with Jeanette Lynes, is forthcoming from Jackpine Press in December. Coteau has just released her first collection, Wolf Tree.
Mainstage (Sept 29) |
Roch Carrier
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Since his hugely successful 1968 novel, La Guerre, Yes Sir!, ROCH CARRIER has written fiction, plays, film and television scripts, essays, travel books, and poetry. In 1991, Prayers of a Very Wise Child won the Stephen Leacock Award, and in 2005, The Flying Canoe (Tundra), Sheila Fischman's translation of La Chasse-galerie, received the Aesop Accolade. The Hockey Sweater has been one of the defining stories of Canadian childhood for almost 30 years. Carrier is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, the former National Librarian, and the holder of many honorary doctorates. He lives in Montreal.
Around the City (Sept 29); Writers to the Schools |
Roch Carrier (Francais)
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Auteur québécois contemporain, ROCH CARRIER a de nombreuses oeuvres à son crédit. Il a reçu de nombreux prix et distinctions honorifiques dont, en 1991, le prix Stephen Leacock pour l'humour dans Prières d'un enfant très très sage. Son inspiration est souvent de source autobiographique. Il aime décrire la vie des gens d'ici et d'ailleurs. Il est aussi connu pour ses écrits en littérature de jeunesse, dont Le chandail de hockey. Roch Carrier est sans doute l'un des auteurs québécois les plus lus au Canada. Il a aussi occupé le poste d'administrateur général de la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada du 1er octobre 1999 au 25 mai 2004.
Scène Scolaire (27 sep) ; Foyer des écrivains (27 sep); Les écrivains à l'école |
David Chariandy
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DAVID CHARIANDY has explored ideas of dislocation and cultural memory as an academic at Simon Fraser University, but he now offers those ideas to a wider audience in his luminous first novel entitled Soucouyant (Arsenal Pulp). Set in Ontario, the story focuses on the fraught and tender relationship between a Canadian-born son and his Trinidadian-born mother, a woman who is suffering from dementia and uncannily "forgetting to forget" the traumatic secrets of her past. The soucouyant--an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore--stands as a symbol of how the legacies of "elsewhere" continue to haunt the lives of those born "here." Chariandy lives in Vancouver.
Campus Program (Sept 28); Mainstage (Sept 28) |
Jean Chicoine (Francais)
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Né à Montréal en 1952, JEAN CHICOINE s'intéresse depuis toujours aux langues. Enfant, il rêvait d'être un agent secret et écrivait des messages codés avec l'alphabet phonétique qu'il avait découvert dans le dictionnaire Larousse. Bachelier en linguistique de l'Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières, il vit au Manitoba depuis 1989. Il est l'auteur de les galaxies nos voisines, roman publié aux Éditions du Blé en 2007.
Foyer des écrivains (28 sep) |
Dj Coda
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After exploring piano, guitar and bass guitar, DJ CODA migrated into DJing underground electronic music. He was involved in the UK Garage movement, and has recently become a major force in brining the new Dubstep sound to North America. He and production partner Deep Six have formed the Phantohm Sound System, and use organically-infused rhythms and sub-bass music to produce sonic soundscapes of Dub-propelled apocalyptic overtones with dangerous hints of melody. Mic controlled Pucona brings his lyrical wisdom to the production. Coda can be heard Friday nights on Bass Behavior Radio (101.5 UMFM) or at www.myspace.com/phantohms.
After Words (Sept 29) |
Trisha Cull
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TRISHA CULL has a master's degree in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and was awarded the Earl Birney Scholarship. Her work has been published in literary magazines such as Geist, Room of One's Own, Descant, and Lichen. In 2006, she won Lichen's "Tracking a Serial Poet" contest. She is currently working on a memoir, a collection of poetry, and a play called "Dying to Chelsea Morning and Other Songs." At the THIN AIR Poetry Bash, she will be presented with the Bliss Carman Poetry Award for her poem, "Loose," winner of the 2007 Prairie Fire Writing Contest. Cull lives in Victoria.
Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 29); Mainstage (Sept 29) |
Anita Daher
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ANITA DAHER was born in PEI and has spent much of her life moving, and she draws writing inspiration from the many places she's been fortunate to spend time in--Summerside PEI, Yellowknife NT, Churchill MB, Baker Lake NU, and Sault Ste. Marie ON, among others. This year has been an important one for Daher. She has three new titles: Racing for Diamonds (Orca) is her third adventure story for young readers; Two Foot Punch (Orca) and Spider's Song (Penguin) take that intensity up a notch for teen readers. This spring she received the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Daher now lives in Winnipeg.
School Stage (Sept 24); School Stage (Sept 25) |
Victor Davies
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Winnipeg-born pianist and conductor, VICTOR DAVIES is one of Canada's outstanding composers. His works have been heard live and on record and have been broadcast and televised worldwide. His music ranges from opera, musical theatre, ballet, choral music, symphony, and chamber music to children's songs for television. Davies has also written scores for radio, film, and TV. One of his recent composing projects is the Manitoba Opera's Transit of Venus, premiering this fall in Winnipeg. Davies studied at both the University of Manitoba, from which he recently received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws, and Indiana University. He now lives in Toronto.
Mainstage (Sept 29) |
Darek Dawda
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DAREK DAWDA--aka Drek Daa--arrived in Canada from Poland in 1990 and enrolled in his first ESL course. Ten years later, he began writing poetry in English, and has since won, among other honors, the title of Canadian Individual Performance Poetry Co-Champion at the 2004 Spoken Wordlympics. This year, he has released his first CD, Just Jittering, and has been invited as Poet of Honour to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Halifax. CBC radio fans know him as Drek Daa: That Polish Guy. Dawda is a psychotherapist, and the brains and energy behind CYRK, Winnipeg's new innovative performance space.
Opening Night (Sept 23) |
Rosanna Deerchild
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ROSANNA DEERCHILD is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines including Prairie Fire and CV2. She has been a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective since its inception in 1999. This group of Manitoba writers has released two collections, urban kool and Bone Memory,and a live spoken word CD, Red City. Her work has most recently been published in Post-prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry (Talonbooks), edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch. She has finished her first manuscript, entitled This is a small northern town, and is at work on her second collection. Deerchild lives in Winnipeg.
Opening Night (Sept 23); Campus Program (Sept 27), Writers to the Schools |
Larry Desrochers
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Currently Manitoba Opera's General Director and CEO, LARRY DESROCHERS is one of Manitoba's most respected theatre directors and arts administrators. He has worked at all levels in theatre, film, festivals, events, and opera, and is the Founding Executive Producer of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Desrochers was the dramaturge and director of Maureen Hunter's Transit of Venus when it received its premiere at MTC, and this season he is directing the world premiere of the opera developed from that play. He is also dramaturging a new play for MTC by Rick Chafe, based on Leon Rook's novel, Shakespeare's Dog. Desrochers lives in Winnipeg.
Mainstage (Sept 29) |
Karen Dudley
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KAREN DUDLEY's checkered past includes field biology, production art, photo research, palaeo-environmental studies, editing and archaeology, and when she finally realized she wanted to do all of it, she turned to writing. She has now published four mysteries featuring Robyn Devara, a bird biologist and environmental consultant who keeps tripping over suspicious deaths. Hoot to Kill, the first of the series, was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award; Macaws of Death and Red Heron further established an enthusiastic readership. Her newest book is Ptarmageddon (Ravenstone, a Turnstone imprint). Dudley also writes wildlife biology books for kids. Born in France, she now lives in Winnipeg.
Around the City (Sept 29) |
Marilyn Dumont
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MARILYN DUMONT's first collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and is now in its tenth printing. Her second collection, green girl dreams Mountains, won the 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Dumont has been the Writer-in-Residence at the Universities of Alberta and Windsor, and at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton and Massey College, University of Toronto. She teaches Creative Writing through Athabasca University and was a mentor for the 2006 Wired Writing Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Dumont continues to work on a fourth manuscript exploring Métis history, politics and identity through her ancestral figure, Gabriel Dumont. She lives in Edmonton.
Rural Tour (Oct 28-30) |
George Ellenbogen
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GEORGE ELLENBOGEN studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and Tufts University in Massachusetts, and then taught poetry at Bentley College in Massachusetts until his retirement in 2004. His books include Along the Road from Eden, and The Rhino Gate Poems (1996), which has been translated into German and French. He is the subject of a documentary film, George Ellenbogen: Canadian Poet in America. His new book, Morning Gothic (Véhicule), captures the strength and delicacy of his writing. Critic John Kinsella calls Ellenbogen "one of the most human and humane poets I have ever read." A Montrealer by birth and upbringing, Ellenbogen lives in Boston.
Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 29); Mainstage (Sept 29) |
Nereo Eugenio
After Words (Sept 28)
Cary Fagan
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CARY FAGAN is an award-winning writer for both young readers and adults. Beyond the Dance, a biography of the National Ballet's prima ballerina Chan Hon Goh, was shortlisted for the Norma Fleck Award. His first novel for kids, Daughter of the Great Zandini, won a Mr. Christie Silver Medal, and the quirky superhero family in The Fortress of Kaspar Snit got him a Silver Birch nomination and many new fans. This year Tundra will publish three new Fagan books: a follow-up novel for middle readers, Directed by Kaspar Snit, and two hilarious picture books, Ten Old Men and a Mouse and My New Shirt. Fagan lives in Toronto.
School Stage (Sept 24); School Stage (Sept 25); Writers to the Schools |
Maureen Fergus
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In addition to being a writer, MAUREEN FERGUS is a business professional with a science degree and an MBA. She has written for magazines such as Today's Parent, Chatelaine and Reader's Digest. Kids Can Press has just published her first novel, a laugh-out-loud portrait of adolescence called Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Goodlooking) Hero. Fergus was born in Regina SK, grew up in Winnipeg, and lived in a number of other Canadian cities before eventually moving back to Winnipeg, where she currently resides with her husband and three young children.
Mainstage (Sept 26); Campus Program (Sept 27) |
Lise Gaboury-Diallo
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Born in Saint-Boniface, LISE GABOURY-DIALLO is a professor of French and French literature at the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. She is the author of a number of critical articles, short stories, and various other texts, including four collections of poetry: Subliminales (1999), transitions (2002), Poste restante : cartes poétiques du Sénégal (2005) et Homestead, poèmes du coeur de l'Ouest (2005), which won the first prize in the French poetry category of the 2004 CBC Literary Awards. This collection includes translations of Mark Stout, illustrations by Étienne Gaboury and Anna Binta Diallo, and photographs by Laurence Véron.
Mainstage (Sept 30) |
Lise Gaboury-Diallo (Francais)
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Née à Saint-Boniface (Manitoba), LISE GABOURY-DIALLO est professeure de langue française et des littératures francophones au Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface (MB). Elle est l'auteure de nombreux articles critiques, de nouvelles et textes divers, dont 4 recueils de poésie : Subliminales (1999), transitions (2002), Poste restante : cartes poétiques du Sénégal (2005) et Homestead, poèmes du coeur de l'Ouest (2005), oeuvre pour laquelle elle a remporté le premier prix, catégorie poésie française, des Prix littéraires Radio-Canada 2004. Ce recueil inclut la traduction de Mark Stout, les illustrations d'Étienne Gaboury, d'Anna Binta Diallo et les photographies de Laurence Véron.
Mainstage (Sept 30) |
Marie-Louise Gay
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MARIE-LOUISE GAY is a writer and illustrator of children's books, with over fifty titles to her credit. Young readers have attached themselves to the whole range--from Rainy Day Magic to On My Island to the Stella and Sam series, from Rumplestiltskin to Caramba to her new novel, Travels with my Family (Groundwood), co-written with her husband David Homel. Her other new title this fall is Please, Louise! (Groundwood), a book she illustrated for Frieda Wishinsky. Gay has won numerous prizes for her work, including two Governor General's Awards for Illustration. She lives with her family in Montreal.
Around the City (Sept 29); Writers to the Schools |
Marie-Louise Gay (Francais)
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MARIE-LOUISE GAY est une écrivaine et illustratrice de livres pour enfants qui compte plus de cinquante titres à son actif. Les jeunes lecteurs ont apprécié la gamme étendue de ses oeuvres, de Rainy Day Magic à la série Stella, de Rumplestiltskin à Caramba et à son nouveau roman, Travels with my Family (Groundwood), coécrit avec son époux David Homel. Cet automne, elle lance Please, Louise! (Groundwood), livre qu'elle a illustré pour Frieda Wishinsky. Elle a remporté de nombreux prix pour son travail, y compris deux Prix du Gouverneur général comme illustratrice. Elle vit avec sa famille à Montréal.
Les écrivains à l'école |
William Gibson
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WILLIAM GIBSON burst into public awareness in 1984 with Neuromancer, the first novel ever to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. That novel launched the cyberpunk generation, and established him as a cultural icon. His many titles include Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru, and Pattern Recognition. His new novel, Spook Country (Penguin), reflects his conviction that "science fiction's best use today is the exploration of contemporary reality rather than any attempt to predict where we are going." Although he remains an American citizen, Gibson has lived in Canada since the 1960s, and makes his home now in Vancouver.
Around the City (Sept 27); Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 28); Mainstage (Sept 28) |
Alison Gordon
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Five years on the baseball beat for the Toronto Star led ALISON GORDON to a National Newspaper Award Citation of Merit and her first book, Foul Balls. Her first crime novel, The Dead Pull Hitter, was short-listed for both the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the City of Toronto Book Award in 1988, and introduced the world to Kate Henry, an irreverent baseball writer who appeared again in Safe At Home, Night Game, Striking Out, and Prairie Hardball (M&S). Gordon is the granddaughter of Winnipeg's own Ralph Connor, and a guest of honor at "Exhibiting Writers" at the Ralph Connor House. She lives in Toronto ON.
Around the City(Sept 29); Mainstage (Sept 30) |
Marcel Gosselin (Francais)
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L'artiste manitobain MARCEL GOSSELIN est diplômé de l'École des beaux-arts de l'Université du Manitoba et oeuvre dans le secteur artistique depuis trente ans. Explorateur impénitent, il est la fois sculpteur, peintre, dessinateur, professeur en arts visuels et créateur multimédia. Il se démarque en produisant, sous le pseudonyme Mozes, des pistes sonores parallèles à son travail visuel (www.mozes.ca). Il a participé à des expositions importantes au Musée des beaux-arts de Winnipeg, au Centre culturel franco-manitobain, ainsi qu'ailleurs au Canada et en France. Il est auteur de livres d'artiste et récipiendaire de plusieurs bourses du Conseil des arts du Manitoba et du Conseil des arts du Canada.
Foyer des écrivains (26 sep) |
Greg Hanec
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GREG HANEC has been involved with film and video in Winnipeg for more than two decades. In the 1980s, he made three short films and two feature-length films, one of which, Downtime '84, was accepted into the Berlin Film Festival. Since then, he has done seven experimental films and is completing his next feature, Think at Night. He collaborated with Campbell Martin on a series of guerilla projections of film loops on trains, billboards, and buildings. His loops and videos have also been a part of numerous raves, and performances of such bands as The Absent Sound, Vav Jungle, National Monument, and his own musical projects, Suture and Philia.
After Words (Sept 29) |
Brenda Hasiuk
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BRENDA HASIUK's award-winning short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Prism International, and The New Quarterly. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies, Up All Night and A Song for Kataryna: Stories for Ukrianians in Canada. Her debut novel, Where the Rocks Say Your Name (Thistledown), a sensitive and powerful exploration of four troubled teens in a northern Manitoba town, was shortlisted for this year's McNally Robinson Book of the Year. Hasiuk was also short-listed this year for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. She lives in Winnipeg.
Campus Program (Sept 25); Campus Program (Sept 26); Campus Program (Sept 27) |
Niels Hav
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NIELS HAV is an award-winning Danish writer who has published five collections of poetry and two of short fiction, and who has read widely throughout Europe, Asia, and both North and South America. His work has been translated into several languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese. He has two poetry collections in English, both translated con amore by Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, writers of considerable reputation. God's Blue Morris, the first of these English collections, appeared in Canada in 1992, and his new collection, We Are Here, has just been published by Book Thug. Hav lives in Copenhagen with his wife, concert pianist Christina Bjørkøe.
Mainstage (Sept 29) |
John Havelda
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JOHN HAVELDA returns to THIN AIR with his signature verbal pyrotechnics. Born to Hungarian parents who'd fled to London, and having lived now for two decades in his adopted home of Portugal, Havelda is drawn to the texture of languages, and his work--both written and visual--reflects his multi-lingual experience. His publications include Islands in the Green Sea, a collaboration with painter John Lavelle, and mor, a book of poems and visual art. A poet, playwright, musician, visual artist, curator, critic, and teacher, Havelda lives in Porto, Portugal, with his wife, actor-singer Ligia Rocque.
Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 28); Mainstage (Sept 29 |
Brian Henderson
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BRIAN HENDERSON is the author of nine collections of poetry, including a deck of visual poem-cards. He has published articles, reviews, and poetry in major literary magazines, including Arc, Descant, Antigonish Review, Quarry, Rampike, Canadian Literature, CV2, Prism, and Rune (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence). He's a photographer, an occasional teacher, and the director of Wilfred Laurier University Press. His new collection, Nerve Language (Pedlar Press), is an exquisitely-crafted exploration of madness, based on memoirs which shaped Freud's work on paranoia. Henderson lives in Kitchener ON with the love of his life, his son, daughter and step-son, and a relentlessly curious dog.
Campus Program (Sept 24); Mainstage (Sept 24); Campus Program (Sept 25) |
Lawrence Hill
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LAWRENCE HILL, formerly a reporter with The Globe and Mail and parliamentary correspondent for The Winnipeg Free Press, has captured both critics and audiences with his fiction and non-fiction. His titles include Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, a memoir of growing up in a mixed race family, and novels Any Known Blood and Some Great Thing. He has released two books this year: The Deserter's Tale (Anansi) is the account of Joshua Keys, the young soldier who was devastated by his experience in Iraq, and The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins), a sprawling epic of slavery that winds through Canadian history. Hill lives in Burlington ON.
Campus Program (Sept 28); Campus Program (Sept 28); Mainstage (Sept 28); Professional Development (Sept 29) |
Maureen Hunter
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MAUREEN HUNTER is one of Canada's most accomplished playwrights. Her work has been produced extensively on Canada's major stages, as well as in Britain and the US. She has been nominated for two Governor General's Awards and two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Outstanding New Play), as well as for the Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Her many titles include Vinci, Atlantis, Footprints on the Moon, Beautiful Lake Winnipeg, The Queen of Queen Street, and Transit of Venus (JG Shillingford), which she has adapted for the Manitoba Opera's stage this fall. Her newest play, Wild Mouth, will premiere in January 2008 at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. Hunter lives in Winnipeg
Mainstage (Sept 29) |
Susan Juby
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SUSAN JUBY has brought both the comedy and the angst of adolescence to life in her wildly successful Alice books: Alice, I Think, Miss Smithers, and Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last. Her new novel, Another Kind of Cowboy (HarperCollins), will satisfy her readers, both teen and adult, with another story of the resilience and determination of youth facing difficult challenges. Juby took a circuitous route to writing, with a brief pause in fashion college and a longer stint in publishing. She grew up in several small towns in British Columbia, and currently lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, James, and their dog, who prefers to remain anonymous.
Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 26); Mainstage (Sept 26); School Stage (Sept 27) |
Erroll Kinistino
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ERROLL KINISTINO is a graduate of the Saskatchewan Federated College's Indian Communication Arts Program and has written for The Saskatchewan Indian and for the Maysaynagun newspaper published by Winnipeg's Indian Métis Friendship Centre. He also writes short fiction and song lyrics. A busy actor, he has just finished a 70-show tour of "Raven Stole the Sun" with Redsky Perfomances, and he plays the bartender Phil Kinistino on Corner Gas. Recently, he mentored Kahkewistahaw youth in "The Task at Hand," a theatre-based project exploring the effects of FASD in the aboriginal community. He is presently associated with NightWind Theatre in Regina.
Rural Tour (Oct 28-30) |
Alice Kuipers
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ALICE KUIPERS was born in London, England, and now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University and has had short stories published in literary magazines and produced for CBC Radio. HarperCollins has just released her first novel, Life on the Refrigerator Door, a deceptively simple exchange of notes between a single mother and her teenage daughter. That correspondence opens up the large questions of communication, illness, and family connections that outlast the most devastating challenges.
Nooner (Sept 26); Mainstage (Sept 26) |
Janice Kulyk Keefer
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JANICE KULYK KEEFER is widely admired for her novels, short story collections, poetry and non-fiction, a list which includes such titles as Honey and Ashes, The Paris-Napoli Express, and Reading Mavis Gallant. Both The Green Library and Under Eastern Eyes were nominated for Governor General's Awards, and Traveling Ladies was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize. Marrying the Sea won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. She has received the Martin Engel Award, two prizes from the CBC Radio Literary Competition and several National Magazine Awards. Her new novel is The Ladies' Lending Library (HarperCollins). Kulyk Keefer lives in Toronto.
Campus Program (Sept 26); Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 26); Mainstage (Sept 26); Campus Program (Sept 27) |
Roger LafreniÈRe (Francais)
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ROGER LAFRENIÈRE est un des premiers artistes franco-manitobains, mais sa réputation provinciale est aussi impeccable; ses oeuvres font partie des principales collections publiques et particulières. Il a imprimé un regard particulier sur le paysage des plaines pour lequel il est reconnu. Roger LaFrenière a participé aux premières expositions collectives d'artistes franco-manitobains au cours des années 1960 et il a été un des organisateurs des premières expositions au Centre culturel de Saint-Boniface et au Centre culturel franco-manitobain. Il est aussi co-fondateur de la Maison des Artistes visuels franco-manitobains. Il dirige son propre studio de design et demeure toujours un protagoniste de la scène culturelle. |
Charles Leblanc (Francais)
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Né une seule fois à Montréal en 1950, CHARLES LEBLANC a vécu la moitié de sa vie au Manitoba. Titulaire de baccalauréats en sciences sociales et en sciences économiques et d'un certificat en traduction. N'ayant pu se décider, il a eu plusieurs carrières : chercheur et enseignant en sciences économiques, serveur de bar, copropriétaire d'une boîte de nuit, acteur professionnel, coordonnateur d'événements artistiques, ouvrier industriel et traducteur. Des constantes : le théâtre (comédien au sein de plusieurs troupes, dont le Cercle Molière) et la poésie (cinq recueils publiés aux Éditions du Blé). Le sixième, heures d'ouverture, sera lancé au cours de THIN AIR.
Foyer des écrivains (26 sep) |
Linda Leith
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LINDA LEITH is a Montreal novelist and translator born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her second novel, The Tragedy Queen, was a "Canadians Recommend" title for Canada Reads in 2003. Agnès Guitard's French translation, Un Amour de Salome, won the Governor General's Award the same year. Her non-fiction titles include Marrying Hungary, a short memoir commissioned for publication in French as Epouser la Hongrie (translation by Aline Apostolska) and later translated into Serbian by Aleksandra Mancic. Her new novel, The Desert Lake (Signature Editions), follows a young woman making her way through difficulties in the unfamiliar terrain of northwestern China.
Nooner (Sept 28); Mainstage (Sept 28) |
J.R. LÉVeillÉ
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Born in Winnipeg, J.R. LÉVEILLÉ is the author of twenty books: novels, poetry, and literary essays. He sits on the editorial committee of the Éditions du Blé and the board of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. He received the first Manitoba Lifetime Writing and Publishing Award in 2007. An international colloquium on his work took place in 2005. He recently published PARADE ou les autres, essays on literature, theatre, and the arts in French Manitoba. In his free time, he is the Grand Inquisitor of the Collectif post-néo-rieliste.
Opening Night (Sept 23) |
J.R. LÉVeillÉ (Francais)
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Né à Winnipeg, J.R. LÉVEILLÉ est l'auteur d'une vingtaine de livres : romans, poésie, essais littéraires. Il dirige le comité éditorial des Éditions du Blé et il siège au conseil du Festival international des Écrivains de Winnipeg. Il est lauréat de divers prix dont le Manitoba Lifetime Writing and Publishing Award en 2007. Un colloque international sur son oeuvre a eu lieu en 2005. Il a récemment fait paraître PARADE ou les autres, essais sur la littérature, le théâtre et les arts au Manitoba français. Dans ses temps libres, il est le Grand Inquisiteur du Collectif post-néo-rieliste.
Ouverture (Sept 23); Foyer des écrivains (26 sep) |
Susan Longmire
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SUSAN LONGMIRE is an award-winning film and television producer who began to explore papier-maché sculpture as an antidote to her production work. One of her most successful projects has been a collection of nineteen busts of Canadian writers--whimsical, astutely-observed, and finished in text from their actual works. The collection has traveled to several literary festivals, and will be showcased this year by THIN AIR at the Ralph Connor House. Ralph Connor, one of Winnipeg's literary legends from early in the 20th century, is included in the collection. Longmire lives with her husband, Henri Fiks, in Tréchy, a village southwest of Paris.
Mainstage (Sept 30) |
Sidura Ludwig
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SIDURA LUDWIG was born and raised in Winnipeg, and has lived in Toronto, Ottawa and Birmingham UK. Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies in Canada and the UK, and she is the recipient of the Canadian Author and Bookman Prize for Most Promising Writer. Her non-fiction work has appeared on CBC radio, and in Canadian newspapers and magazines. Her debut novel, Holding My Breath (Key Porter), a delicate portrait of a girl growing up Winnipeg's Jewish North End, has already caught the attention of critics and readers alike. Ludwig lives in Toronto ON with her husband and two young children.
Nooner (Sept 24); Mainstage (Sept 24); School Stage (Sept 25) |
Dave Margoshes
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The author of twelve books, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, DAVE MARGOSHES has had his work published in numerous magazines and anthologies throughout North America, including six times in the Best Canadian Stories volumes. He has won a number of awards, including the City of Regina Writing Award and the Stephen Leacock Poetry Award for The Persistent Suitor. His new collection, Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories (NeWest), winner of the John V. Hicks Award, was praised by the judges for its "compelling images and insights." His work will appear in A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing, forthcoming this fall from the Manitoba Writers' Guild. Margoshes lives in Regina.
Mainstage (Sept 24); Campus Program (Sept 25) |
Chandra Mayor
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CHANDRA MAYOR is a Winnipeg writer and editor who was the Millennium Library's most recent Writer-in-Residence. Her first book, August Witch: poems, was short-listed for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, and won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. Her novel Cherry was long-listed for a ReLit Award, short-listed for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. She won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and has established herself as a compelling performer, winning the 2006 CBC Manitoba Poetry Face-Off.
Mainstage (Sept 30) |
Brendan Mcleod
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BRENDAN MCLEOD has been Vancouver's SLAM poetry champion, was the 2004 Canadian SLAM champion, and runner-up at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in Holland. Recently, he beat out over 500 original entries to win the 2006 International 3-Day-Novel Contest with The Convictions of Leonard McKinley (3-Day Books), a darkly funny novel about growing up. When he is not writing, he tours extensively in North America and Europe as both a solo spoken word performer and as a member of the music group The Fugitives. He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo. McLeod lives in Vancouver.
School Stage (Sept 26); School Stage (Sept 26); Mainstage (Sept 26); After Words (Sept 27) |
Jim Nason
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JIM NASON graduated from McGill University with an MA in English Literature. He also holds degrees from Ryerson and York universities. His poems and stories have appeared in numerous literary journals in Canada as well as the United States. He is the author of two poetry collections, If Lips Were as Red and The Fist of Remembering. His first novel, The Housekeeping Journals (Turnstone), is a warm and unsentimental portrait of a young man who provides home care to a cast of eccentrics in Toronto, including many dying of AIDS. Nason lives in Toronto.
Mainstage (Sept 24); Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 25) |
Bertrand Nayet (Francais)
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Né à Auxerre (France) en 1962, BERTRAND NAYET arrive au Manitoba à 13 ans lorsque sa famille s'établit sur une ferme à Dufrost. Il termine ses études secondaires à Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes (Manitoba) puis il obtient un baccalauréat spécialisé en traduction (1986) et un baccalauréat en éducation (1989) au Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. Professeur de français et de théâtre au Collège Louis-Riel, il dirige la troupe de théâtre de cette école secondaire franco-manitobaine. Après des haïkus, il publie en 2003 des récits épistolaires en collaboration : Voyages en papier (Blé). Également illustrateur d'un livre pour enfants, il prépare plusieurs ouvrages variés.
Foyer des écrivains (26 sep) |
Yvette Nolan
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YVETTE NOLAN is a playwright, dramaturge, and director. Her plays include Annie Mae's Movement, BLADE, Job's Wife, Video, the libretto Hilda Blake and the radio play Owen. Directing credits include The Triple Truth (Turtle Gals), Tales of an Urban Indian, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, Annie Mae's Movement (Native Earth). As a dramaturge, she works across Canada, most recently as the Festival Dramaturge for Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre Spring Festival. She was the president of the Playwrights Union of Canada 1998- 2001, and of Playwrights Canada Press 2003-2005. She is currently the Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto.
Rural Tour (Oct 24) |
Leif Norman
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LEIF NORMAN enjoys performing poetry and music under such names as "DJ Particle Board" and "Mr. Shmengie the Bouncing Toupee." His work has gained him a place on the 2007 Manitoba Poetry Slam Team which will compete in Halifax in October. As a recent graduate of the University of Winnipeg he hopes to put his Chemistry degree to good use and get a real job like a grown up person should, but until then he is concentrating on poetry. Norman lives in Winnipeg.
After Words (Sept 28) |
Emily Pohl-Weary
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EMILY POHL-WEARY grew up in the west end of Toronto where she still lives. She has recently published a poetry collection, Iron-On Constellations, and a novel, A Girl Like Sugar, and edited a female superhero anthology, Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks. In 2002, she co-authored the Hugo Award-winning biography of her grandmother, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril which was also short-listed for the Toronto Book Award. Her new young adult novel, Strange Times at Western High (Annick), features a zine-publishing teen sleuth. Pohl-Weary edits Kiss Machine, an art/lit magazine, and is currently at work on a girl pirate comic, Violet Miranda.
School Stage (Sept 26); School Stage (Sept 26); Campus Program (Sept 27) |
Laurent Poliquin (Francais)
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LAURENT POLIQUIN a publié trois recueils de poésie aux Éditions des Plaines. Titulaire d'un baccalauréat en philosophie de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, d'une maîtrise en études françaises de l'Université de Colombie-Britannique et d'un baccalauréat en éducation du Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, il enseigne le français et la littérature à l'Université du Manitoba et est éditeur adjoint aux Éditions des Plaines. Il participe régulièrement à des récitals de poésie, notamment au Marché de la poésie de Montréal (2007) et au Salon du livre de Paris (2007). Membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Contemporary Verse 2, il collabore au magazine culturel Liaison. Il prépare un prochain recueil intitulé La métisse filante.
Foyer des écrivains (28 sep) |
Marc Prescott (Francais)
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MARC PRESCOTT a écrit plusieurs oeuvres théâtrales et réalisé des traductions et des adaptations pour le Cercle Molière et la troupe des Chiens de Soleil. En 1993, Sex, Lies et les F.-M. inaugure une nouvelle ère dans le théâtre franco-manitobain. Sa pièce Bullshit, mise en scène sous le titre Poissons, s'est méritée le « Masque » de la meilleure production franco-canadienne en 2001. Quelques années plus tôt, l'École nationale du théâtre à Montréal a connu son plus grand succès public avec L'Année du Big Mac. Marc Prescott a publié aux Éditions du blé Big!; Bullshit; Sex, Lies et les Franco-Manitobains (2001), Encore (2003) et L'Année du Big-Mac (2004).
Foyer des écrivains (28 sep) |
Alison Preston
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ALISON PRESTON was born and raised in Winnipeg. She tried on several other cities, including Calgary, London ON, and Vancouver, then returned to Winnipeg, where she now lives in the Norwood Flats, home also to the quirky characters in her novels. She is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg and was a letter carrier for twenty-eight years. She has published five mystery novels, including The Geranium Girls and Cherry Bites, which was nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. Her new book is Sunny Dreams (Signature Editions).
Around the City (Sept 29) |
Rory Runnells
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RORY RUNNELLS has been the Artistic Director of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights since 1983, supporting and mentoring both developing and established playwrights. Over the past two decades, he has produced many Fringe and independent theatre productions, and is the Drama Editor for Prairie Fire magazine. Since 2005, he has written incisive essays on opera for the Manitoba Opera program. Runnells lives in Winnipeg.
Around the City (Sept 29) |
Michel Saint Hilaire
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Artiste visuel franco-manitobain, MICHEL SAINT HILAIRE est présentement un peintre de murales a temps plein, en collaboration avec Mandy van Leeuwen. Spécialiste du dessin et de la peinture, il affiche une technique raffinée avec un style surréaliste. Il a complété 2 années des beaux arts à l'université du Manitoba. Il a participé à des expositions dans les galeries suivantes : Maison des Artistes, Piano Nobile Gallery, Cream, Label, Annex. Il est associé à la galerie de la Maison des Artistes. Il a fait partie de son comité de programmation Il a conçu un livre d'illustrations, La pierre Le corps, qui a été publié par As We Try And Sleep Press.
Foyer des écrivains (26 sep) |
Paul Savoie
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PAUL SAVOIE is a writer and translator with more than twenty books in both French and English, to his credit. His poetry collections include Amour flou, Racines d'eau, L'Émpire des rôdeurs, and Fishing for Light. Several of the poems in The Selected Poetry of Louis Riel, a Savoie translation, appeared in Maggie Siggins' biography of Riel. Savoie is also a musician and has written many songs in collaboration with other songwriters. His most recent poetry collection, Crac (Les Éditions David), won the 2007 Trillium Award for Poetry. Originally from St Boniface MB, Savoie moved to Ontario in the 1970s and lives in Toronto.
Mainstage (Sept 29) |
Paul Savoie (Francais)
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Originaire de Saint-Boniface, PAUL SAVOIE vit en Ontario depuis les années 1970. Il a publié plusieurs livres dans tous les genres littéraires, dont le recueil Amour flou, que Pierre Nepveu a loué dans la revue Spirale, et Racines d'eau, publié dans la collection Ovale des Éditions du Noroît. Il a publié deux récits, Mains de père et À tue-tête, et des recueils de nouvelles. Il a traduit la poésie de Louis Riel (vers l'anglais) et celle de Dennis Lee (vers le français). Il collabore avec Dyane Léger à un recueil de poésie et avec Roberta Morris à un roman érotique. En 2007, il obtient le Prix Trillium pour son recueil CRAC.
Foyer des écrivains (26 sep); Foyer des écrivains (28 sep) |
Gregory Scofield
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GREGORY SCOFIELD is a Métis poet, writer, activist and community worker whose maternal ancestry can be traced back five generations to the Red River Settlement and to Kinesota, Manitoba. He has published several acclaimed books of poetry, including the powerful Singing Home the Bones (Raincost), as well as the memoir Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a Métis Childhood. His work has garnered both the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and he is the subject of a feature documentary, Singing Home the Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself, airing this year on BRAVO, STN, and APTN. Scofield and his partner live in Calgary.
Rural Tour (Oct 24) |
Skip Stone
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SKIP STONE is a Winnipeg born writer who lives his civilian life under the alias Jonathan Surla. He is a member of Winnipeg B-boy crew Dangerous Goods under many aliases, and tried to be an actor in Toronto for what he feels may have been waaaaaay too long. He was a member of last year's Winnipeg Poetry Slam Team which competed in Toronto and is happy to be joining the team once again to compete in Halifax this year. He raps, wears hats, and in his spare time he likes to write short bios for his various other aliases. |
Wayne Tefs
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Writer and editor WAYNE TEFS has eight novels to his credit, as well as a memoir and three anthologies. His novel Red Rock was broadcast on CBC's Booktime, and Moon Lake received the inaugural Margaret Laurence Prize for Fiction. His short story, "Red Rock and After," won the Canadian Magazine Fiction Prize. His most recent book, Be Wolf (Turnstone) is a "docu-fiction" based on the life of a German doctor who survives an ordeal in Manitoba's remote north despite a broken back. Tefs lives in Winnipeg with his wife and son. |
Joel Thomas Hynes
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JOEL THOMAS HYNES' earthy first novel, Down to the Dirt, won the Percy Janes First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Winterset Award and longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He co-wrote the stageplay, The Devil You Dont Know, and his new play, Say Nothing Saw Wood, won the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Best Dramatic Script. Also an actor, his many credits include leading roles in the CBC's Hatching, Matching and Dispatching (for which he also won a Gemini Award for writing) and the film version of Down to the Dirt. His new novel is Right Away Monday (HarperCollins). Hynes lives in St John's NL.
Nooner (Sept 27); Mainstage (Sept 27) |
Christian Violy (Francais)
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Poète et enseignant, CHRISTIAN VIOLY est titulaire d'une maîtrise en littérature québécoise (Université Laval, 1999) et a complété sa scolarité de doctorat en didactique (Université de Montréal, 2003). Il a remporté le Grand Prix des saisons littéraires (catégorie essai) par Guérin éditeur en 1996 pour Du rire à l'enchantement - d'après l'oeuvre de Francis Jammes. Violy est l'auteur de Les silences immobiles (Plaines, 2000) et Avant la chute (Plaines, 2002), bien reçus par la critique. Il travaille actuellement à titre de coordonnateur à la Division de l'éducation permanente au Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. Son prochain recueil en préparation s'intitule Exaucé. |
Sante Arcangelo Viselli
Né en Italie, près de Rome, en 1949, SANTE ARCANGELO VISELLI quitta son village en 1969 pour venir au Canada. Après les cycles d'études universitaires dans ce pays et en France, il a, en 1983, soutenu une thèse de doctorat sur la littérature française de l'époque classique à l'Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. Son premier poste fut à Saint-Jean de Terre-Neuve, qu'il quitta définitivement en 1986 pour s'établir au coeur du Manitoba. Il est aujourd'hui professeur de littérature et de civilisation françaises à l'Université de Winnipeg. Entre autres, Sante Arcangelo Viselli est l'auteur d'un recueil de poésie intitulé Le Pendule, d'un conte et de plusieurs études académiques portant sur la littérature française des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, ainsi que sur les données littéraires et culturelles italo-canadiennes d'expression française. Foyer des écrivains (28 sept.)
Eleanor Wachtel
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Born and raised in Montreal, ELEANOR WACHTEL is a highly-esteemed writer and broadcaster whose work has earned her four honorary degrees. She is a Member of the Order of Canada. Wachtel has hosted CBC Radio's "Writers & Company" since its inception in 1990 and "The Arts Tonight" until it went off the air in early 2007. Both programs have won the CBC Award for best network show. She has co-edited and co-authored a number of books, including two collections of interviews called Original Minds and More Writers & Company. Her new book, Random Illuminations (Goose Lane), is a memoir detailing her lively friendship with Carol Shields. Wachtel lives in Toronto. |
Agnes Walsh
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Born and brought up in Placentia, Newfoundlander AGNES WALSH is an actor, playwright, storyteller, translator, and poet. Her poems have won Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters awards, and been translated into French and Portuguese. Her first book, In the Old Country of My Heart, is one of the best loved books of poetry to come out of Newfoundland. Her new collection, Going Around with Bachelors (Brick Books) confirms that reputation with poems that speak with disarming wit about life on the Cape Shore. In 2006 she was named the inaugural St. John's Poet Laureate. She divides her time between St. John's and Patrick's Cove on the Cape Shore. |
Kathleen Winter
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KATHLEEN WINTER is a Holyrood Newfoundland writer who has written dramatic and documentary scripts for Sesame Street and CBC television and writes a weekly column for the St. John's Telegram. She has published a novella, Where is Mario, and two books of creative non-fiction, The Road Along the Shore and The Necklace of Dreams. Her new book, a collection of stories called boYs (Biblioasis), is a wryly observant investigation of the distance between men and women. The manuscript won the 2007 Metcalf Rooke Award, and the collection's lead story will be included in the next volume of Best Canadian Stories. Mainstage (Sept 27); Afternoon Book Chat (Sept 27) |
Michael Winter
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MICHAEL WINTER'S first novel, This All Happened, won the inaugural Winterset Award and was nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The Big Why was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Literary Award. It was also a Globe and Mail Top 100 book for 2004 and an Amazon.ca Editor's Pick of 25 literary books of the year worldwide. Winter's new book, The Architects Are Here (Penguin), offers his signature blend of astute characterization and brilliant styling. Originally from Newfoundland, Winter now divides his time between Corner Brook and Toronto. |
Frieda Wishinsky
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FRIEDA WISHINSKY was raised and educated in New York City, where she received degrees in both International Rights and Special Education. She taught children and adults with learning disabilities in New York, Israel and Canada before beginning to write. She has published over forty acclaimed books for young readers, many of which have been widely translated. This is another banner year for Wishinsky. She's publishing six time travel books in the new Canadian Red Flyer Series (Maple Tree), and a new picture book, Please, Louise! (Groundwood), illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay. Wishinsky lives in Toronto ON. |
Paul Yee
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Paul Yee is the leading chronicler of the Chinese immigration experience in Canada. He has to his credit many acclaimed books for young people, including The Jade Necklace, The Bone Collector's Son, and Ghost Train, which won the 1996 Governor General's Award. Recent titles include What Happened Last Summer (Tradewind), a collection of stories featuring Asian-Canadian teens, and Shu-Li and Tamara (Tradewind), a picture book for middle readers. Saltwater City, a non-fiction book for adults, was awarded the Vancouver Book Prize. His newest non-fiction book is the richly-documented coffee table history, Chinatown (Lorimer). Yee lives in Toronto. |
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