House of Anansi alumni share anecdotes and accolades celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Canadian publishing house. This round table discussion features authors Lynn Crosbie, Graeme Gibson and Dennis Lee hosted by Jared Bland and moderated by Nick Mount.
This event includes a door prize of a library valued at $500! Donated by House of Anansi Press.
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Jared Bland (Canada/USA) is a senior editor at House of Anansi Press.
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Lynn Crosbie was born in Montreal and is a cultural critic. She holds a PhD in English literature with a background in visual studies and teaches at the University of Toronto and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her books include Pearl, Queen Rat and Dorothy L'Amour. She is also the author of the controversial book Paul's Case and the editor of The Girl Wants To. She is a contributing editor at Fashion and a National Magazine Award Winner who has written about sports, style, art and music.
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Graeme Gibson is the acclaimed author of Five Legs, Communion, Perpetual Motion, Gentleman Death, The Bedside Book of Birds and The Bedside Book of Beasts. Gibson is a long-time cultural activist and co-founder of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Writers' Trust. He is a past president of PEN Canada, the recipient of both the Harbourfront Festival Prize and the Toronto Arts Award, and a Member of the Order of Canada.
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Dennis Lee is the author of more than 20 books, including Civil Elegies, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, and the children’s classic Alligator Pie. He is also a noted essayist, song lyricist and editor, and was the co-founder of House of Anansi Press in 1967. He was also the recipient of the inaugural Harbourfront Festival Prize. Lee presents his most recent collection of poems, Testament, which explores the dilemma of contemporary existence and reminds us of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for the future.
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Nick Mount teaches Canadian literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of When Canadian Literature Moved to New York, winner of the 2005 Gabrielle Roy Prize. He's a repeat finalist in TVO's Best Lecturer contest, a 3M National Teaching Fellow and the fiction editor for The Walrus.
