Expect to laugh out loud at this three-way interview with contemporary fiction's leading ladies. Siri Agrell poses the questions; James Grainger hosts.
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Siri Agrell is a reporter with the Globe and Mail. Her first book, Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums, was published in 2007.
James Grainger is a books columnist for the Toronto Star and the author of The Long Slide. He is also the Editor in Chief of Torontoist's new books site, Books@Torontoist.
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A. L. Kennedy (Scotland/UK) has published novels, non-fiction and story collections. She has twice been selected as one of
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and Italy’s Premio Napoli prize. Kennedy’s next novel
What Becomes will be published in Canada in spring 2010. She has also written extensively for stage and screen. Her one-woman stand-up show,
WORDS with A. L. Kennedy, called “startlingly good” by the
Guardian, played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2009, and is now coming to IFOA.
A.L. Kennedy appears at IFOA as part of
Writing Scotland.
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Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife was translated into more than 30 languages and made became an international bestseller. Niffenegger is also a visual artist, and has published two visual novels. In Her Fearful Symmetry, identical twin teenage girls are left a London flat by an aunt they didn’t even know existed. They move from America to start a new life – not realizing how many mysterious fragments of the aunt’s life (herself a twin) remain.
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Miriam Toews is the author of three previous novels – Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, and the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning A Complicated Kindness – and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. Toews presents her latest novel, The Flying Troutmans, winner of the 2008 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Following an SOS call from her niece, Hattie returns to Canada only to find her sister on her way to the psychiatric ward. The three set off on a wild road trip to find the kids’ long-lost father.
