Whether it be a story based on a historic Canadian figure or a job policing the US/Canada border, don't miss readings from these four authors that are bound to include a range of Canadian content. Lewis DeSoto hosts.
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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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Don Gillmor is the author of Canada: A People’s History and The Desire of Every Living Thing. He is the winner of nine National Magazine Awards, and is a frequent contributor to the Walrus, Toronto Life and the Globe and Mail. Gillmor presents Kanata, a riveting narrative inspired by the life of David Thompson. Written in the tradition of Dances with Wolves and the novels of Edward Rutherfurd, it is an epic story about the invention of our nation Canada.
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Jim Lynch has worked as a journalist for the Seattle Times and the Oregonian, for which he received numerous national reporting honours. He is the author of The Highest Tide, a Richard & Judy bestseller in the UK. Border Songs, Lynch’s extraordinary second novel, tells the story of Brandon Vandeerkool, a six-foot-eight dyslexic man whose father finds him a job with Border Patrol, policing the often-invisible boundary between the US and Canada.
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James W. Nichol is a playwright and the author of two previous novels – the Arthur Ellis Award-winning Midnight Cab and Transgression, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in Germany. Nichol presents Death Spiral, a complex, multi-layered thriller that opens with a hero’s welcome for a celebrated Canadian Spitfire fighter pilot during WWII, who miraculously survived terrible injuries.
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Writer and translator Claire Holden Rothman is the author of two short story collections. She holds a B.A. in philosophy and a B.C.L. from McGill University, as well as an M.A. in literature from Concordia University. For 13 years she taught English and humanities at Marianopolis College in Montreal and, for several years after that, creative writing at McGill. Rothman presents The Heart Specialist. Based on the life of one of Canada’s most famous early physicians, it is the story of a woman who strives to become what others believe she has no right to become.
