Now that the western world is firmly cemented in a Global Era, writers are re-defining “the Outsider.” What does it mean to refuse society's definition of acceptability and leave the only thing you’ve known in order to find meaning? Authors Lauren B. Davis, Johan Harstad and Bharati Mukherjee discuss this with the CBC's Carol Off.
This event is part of CBC Day, where Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, lends members of its radio and television team to host, moderate or interview at Festival events.
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Lauren B. Davis is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Stubborn Season, as well as a collection of short stories, Rat Medicine and Other Unlikely Curatives. Her novel Radiant City was nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Born in Montreal, Davis lived in France for 10 years. She now lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Davis presents Our Daily Bread, which explores the consequences of group attachment – the “us” versus “them” mentality that arises when a collective identity is stronger than that of the individual self.
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Johan Harstad, author, playwright, graphic designer, drummer, and international sensation, has had books published in 11 countries. He is also the recipient of the Brage Award for children’s literature. In 2009, his first novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion? was made into a TV series. Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion? tells the story of Mattias, a 30-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin.
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Bharati Mukherjee (Canada/USA) is the author of seven novels; two collections of short stories; co-author, with Clark Blaise, of two books of non-fiction; and numerous essays on immigration and American culture. She is the first naturalized US citizen to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Fiction and has been a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley since 1989. Mukherjee presents Miss New India, about a young woman who, originally set for an arranged marriage, leaves for the big city where she is able to reinvent herself.
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Carol Off is the critically acclaimed host of CBC Radio One’s As It Happens. She is the creator of many award-winning documentaries and is the author of three books, including Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet, which chronicles the international cocoa industry and the machinations behind Big Chocolate.
