Four authors presenting their fiction at IFOA talk to Susan G. Cole about the influence of fact. A round table with David Benioff, Joe Dunthorne, Rivka Galchen, and Owen Sheers.
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David Benioff is an author and screenwriter. He adapted his first novel, The 25th Hour, into the feature film directed by Spike Lee, and adapted The Kite Runner for the screen.
Susan G. Cole is an author, editor and playwright and longtime on-stage interviewer at the IFOA. She is the Entertainment and Books Editor at NOW Magazine, and contributes to a weekly blog on nowtoronto.com. Cole can also be heard on the Media and the Message panel every Thursday on Radio Talk 640. She also has her own website, susangcole.com.
Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, Wales, and now lives in London. His poetry has been featured on the U.K.’s Channel 4 and Radio 3. He presents his debut novel, Submarine. Narrated by 14-year-old Oliver Tate – a boy who is abnormally concerned about his parent’s intimacy issues and, fairly normally, concerned with girls, his best friends, and losing his virginity – Submarine
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Rivka Galchen’s (Canada/U.S.A.) writing has been published in the Believer, New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and Scientific American, and she was the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award.
Owen Sheers was born in Fiji and grew up in Abergavenny, Wales. He is the author of award-winning poetry and non-fiction, and has also written for radio, TV, and newspapers.
