Céline Curiol, Halfdan W. Freihow, Marina Lewycka and Michael Ondaatje read from their new books. Margaret Christakos opens the event reading from her poetry collection.
Randy Boyagoda hosts.
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Margaret Christakos is the author of six acclaimed poetry collections and a novel, Charisma, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award.
Céline Curiol is a journalist who has worked for various French media, including Libération, Radio France, and BBC Afrique. She presents her first novel, Voice Over, which Paul Auster commended as “one of the most original and brilliantly executed works of fiction by any contemporary writer I know of.”
Halfdan W. Freihow grew up in Mexico, Norway, Spain and Belgium and has worked as a publisher, reporter, translator and literary critic. He presents Dear Gabriel, a deeply moving confessional, written in the form of a letter from a father to his young autistic son.
Marina Lewycka was born of Ukrainian parents in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany, at the end of the war, and grew up in England. Her first novel was the bestselling A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Michael Ondaatje is an internationally acclaimed and multiple award-winning poet, novelist, filmmaker, editor, and teacher. His bestselling novel The English Patient was awarded the Man Booker Prize, his novel Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis, and his most recent novel, Divisadero, was the winner of the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction. Ondaatje's films include Sons of Captain Poetry, Carry on Crime and Punishment, The Clinton Special, and Royal Canadian Hounds.
