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October 20–30, 2010

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

Friday, October 31, 8:00pm
2008-10-31 20:00
2008-10-31 21:30
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 is the author of A Blade of Grass, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and translated into 10 languages, and a biography of Emily Carr. His long association with the IFOA includes a position on the Board of Directors.
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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

One of Canada’s pre-eminent biographers, Charlotte Gray (Canada/UK) has won many awards, including the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the CAA Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. Her bestselling book Sisters in the Wilderness was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award. She has also received the prestigious Pierre Berton Award for a body of historical writing. She is currently the Chair of Canada’s National History Society. Gray presents her latest work, Gold Diggers, recounting the days of the Yukon Gold Rush of 1896.
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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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