In this round-table event, Joan Barfoot, Francine Prose, and Frank Westerman talk to
Globe and Mail Books editor Martin Levin about realism and the contemporary novel.
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Joan Barfoot is the internationally acclaimed author of 10 previous novels including the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated Luck and Man Booker Prize-longlisted Critical Injuries.
Martin Levin is Books Editor of the Globe and Mail, and an irregular blogger and reviewer as well. He has co-written a play about the world’s worst film director and contributed personal essays to a number of anthologies, most recently Great Expectations: Twenty-four True Stories about Childbirth.
Francine Prose is the author of fifteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the non-fiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer.
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Frank Westerman is the author of five previous award-winning Dutch titles, including The Republic of Grain, Engineers of the Soul and El Negro and Me.
