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Non-fiction Night: Christopher Dewdney, Charlotte Gray, Richard Gwyn, Adam Sol, M.G. Vassanji

Friday, October 31, 8:00pm
| Brigantine Room
2008-10-31 20:00
2008-10-31 21:30

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Listed as one of NOW Magazine's "Best of the Fest," this event showcases real stories of true lives: Richard Gwyn, winner of the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction, reads on a bill with fellow non-fiction headliners (and Canadians) Christopher Dewdney, Charlotte Gray, and M.G. Vassanji. With poetry from Adam Sol. Lewis DeSoto hosts.

At this event, a representative of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction presents a copy of Richard Gwyn’s prize winning book, John A.: The Man Who Made Us, and announces that the 137 books submitted for the 2008 prize are to be donated to Canada House in London, for use in their own library, and in Canadian studies libraries around the U.K..

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Lewis DeSoto

Lewis DeSoto was born in South Africa, and studied at what is now the Emily Carr College of Art. His paintings have been widely exhibited across Canada, and his novel A Blade of Grass was nominated for numerous prestigious awards including the Man Booker Prize. His most recent book is a biography of Emily Carr.
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Christopher Dewdney

Christopher Dewdney is one of Canada’s most articulate and thoughtful cultural commentators. He has published three books of popular non-fiction, including the Governor General’s Literary Award finalists The Immaculate Perception and Acquainted with the Night.
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Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers and biographers, and the award-winning author of several bestsellers, including Reluctant Genius: The Passions and Inventions of Alexander Graham Bell, Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King, and Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill. Gray is the author of Nellie McClung, part of Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians series.
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Richard Gwyn

Richard Gwyn is an award-winning author and political columnist. He is widely known as a commentator for the Toronto Star on national and international affairs and as a frequent contributor to television and radio programmes.
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Adam Sol

Adam Sol is the author of two collections of poetry, Jonah's Promise, which won the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry, and Crowd of Sounds, which won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
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M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji was born in Kenya, raised in Tanzania, and immigrated to Canada in 1978. He is the author of the regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel The Gunny Sack, the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning The Book of Secrets, the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and 2007’s acclaimed The Assassin’s Song.
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