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SUMMARY:Republic of Consciousness Prize (US/CAN) Virtual Longlist Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US/CAN) longlisting of Your Absence Is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, translated by Philip Roughton\, at this virtual longlist party!  The celebration is free and open to the public\, and will feature the six judges as hosts\, representatives from the longlisted presses as well as authors and translators reading from their works. There will also be a Q&A period. \nThe virtual celebration will take place over Zoom on February 19\, at 6PM CT / 7PM EST. Zoom link here. \nGrab Your Absence Is Darkness here. \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nLonglisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024 \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. \nABOUT PHILIP ROUGHTON \nPhilip Roughton is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature\, having translated works by numerous writers including Halldór Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s The Heart of Man\, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe.
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SUMMARY:On Book Banning: Ira Wells at the Centre for Free Expression
DESCRIPTION:Join Ira Wells\, author of On Book Banning\, in a Freedom to Read Week conversation with Centre for Free Expression Director James L. Turk\, at this time when censorship is becoming popular and pervasive. The event is co-sponsored by Canadian School Libraries\, Edmonton Public Library\, PEN Canada\, Toronto Public Library\, Vancouver Public Library. \nThis free virtual event will take place on Wednesday\, February 26 at 7pm EST. Zoom link to event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 \nMore details here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-ira-wells-at-the-centre-for-free-expression/
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SUMMARY:Freedom to Read Week with Ira Wells (On Book Banning)
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Freedom to Read Week in Canada\, join Ira Wells\, author of On Book Banning: Or\, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy\, for thought-provoking online conversation Dr. Shannon Murray\, held by Bookmark Bookstores. \nThis virtual event will take place on Thursday\, February 27 at 7PM ADT. Reserve your free ticket today here\, and you will be emailed a Zoom link on the morning of the event to the email you include with your registration. \nMore details here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
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