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October 21 – 31, 2009

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SOLD OUT --- TOO MUCH HAPPINESS! Diana Athill in conversation with Alice Munro.

Wednesday, October 21, 8:00pm
| Fleck Dance Theatre
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2009-10-21 20:00
2009-10-21 22:00

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On the opening night of IFOA’s 30th anniversary Festival, two extraordinary writers appear in support of PEN Canada at a once-in-a-lifetime event. In her only onstage interview this fall, the incomparable and globally celebrated Alice Munro, recently named winner of the Man Booker International Prize, appears in conversation with publishing legend Diana Athill, who is making her first appearance in Canada.

Both authors will be launching new books this fall. Alice Munro’s new story collection is Too Much Happiness; Diana Athill publishes Life Class, a collection of her previously published memoirs.

Proceeds go to PEN Canada.

Both authors will be signing after the event.
(Please note, Alice Munro will only be signing copies of Too Much Happiness)

Bill Richardson leads the discussion. Matt Galloway hosts.

Onstage event starts: 8pm
 Tickets purchasers are invited to a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception at 6:30pm in the Fleck Dance Theatre lobby, preceding the onstage event.
Price: $100
 SORRY - THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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Diana Athill

Diana Athill was born in 1917 and worked for the BBC throughout WWII. For 50 years she was the editorial director of André Deutsch, where she worked with such authors as Jean Rhys, Mordecai Richler, Brian Moore, Gitta Sereny and V. S. Naipaul. Her books include the memoirs Yesterday Morning, Instead of a Letter, Stet, and the Costa Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End, which are now anthologized in a new volume, Life Class. Diana Athill was appointed OBE in 2009.
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Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway is the host of CBC Radio One's Here and Now.
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Alice Munro

Alice Munro has published 12 collections of stories – including The Progress of Love, The View from Castle Rock and Runaway – as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. During her distinguished career Munro has been the recipient of many awards, including three Governor General’s Literary Awards, two Scotiabank Giller Prizes, and the Man Booker International Prize, of which she was the third, and only female, recipient. Alice Munro’s stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Paris Review. Her new collection is Too Much Happiness.
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Bill Richardson

Bill Richardson is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast, for which he won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and a novel for younger readers, After Hamelin, which won the Ontario Library Association’s Silver Birch Award. He is probably best known for his work on CBC Radio, as the host of Sunday Afternoon on CBC Radio Two, and, previously, as the host/moderator of Canada Reads and The Roundup on CBC Radio One. Bill Richardson lives in Vancouver.
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