Selected as a Globe and Mail Critics Pick Listen in as Larry Gaudet moderates a round-table discussion in which authors Neil Bissoondath, Pan Bouyoucas, and Hélène Dorion show the scope and range of literary work coming out of Québec. Presented with support from the Government of Québec.
This event is part of Québec Now! a celebration of contemporary Québec arts and culture in Toronto. Go to http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com to find out more.
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Neil Bissoondath was born in Trinidad and is currently a professor of creative writing at Université Laval in Québec City. He has twice won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and has been nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award. In The Soul of All Great Designs, successful businessman Alec has set himself up with an interior design firm and a fabricated life. When he meets and falls in love with Sue, both parties have to reconcile public faces with private lives.
Pan Bouyoucas is a Greek-Canadian writer, playwright, and translator who has twice been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. He presents Aegean Tales, two novels translated from the French by award-winning Sheila Fischman. The Other, set on the Greek island of Leros, is the story of a young man who suffers a cruel twist of fate; Anna Why, a bestseller in Quebec and in France, recounts the conflict between two caretakers at the Church of the Blessed Virgin.
Hélène Dorion has won numerous accolades for her poetry, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Prix international de poésie Wallonie-Bruxelles, and the Prix l’Académie Mallarmé, which was awarded for her body of work. With her debut novel, Days of Sand – translated from the French by Jonathan Kaplansky – Dorion presents a captivating, lyrical piece of sensory fiction chronicling stories of life as experienced from a child’s perspective and through that child’s growing awareness of the world.
Larry Gaudet is an award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer. His recent books include Safe Haven, an exploration of the sanctuary principle, and Into The Blast Furnace, a work of magic corporate realism. Gaudet lives in Toronto and in Nova Scotia.
