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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at Vancouver Writers Fest for the reading event “Short Stories\, Infinite Identities.” Caroline will be in conversation with authors Shashi Bhat and Aaron Kreuter\, for this event moderated by Shaena Lambert. \nGood short stories can share expansive truths with the smallest details. Each of these authors offer mesmerizing insights into what it means to be human in their collections. Discover more about the intricate craft of short stories\, which offers a necessary tapestry of humanity. \nThe event will take place on Wednesday\, October 23 at 5:30 PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-vancouver-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry 2025: Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Aislinn Hunter\, editor of this year’s Best Canadian Poetry 2025 anthology\, will be hosting “The Poetry Bash” event at Vancouver Writer’s Fest! Poets joining the event include Evelyn Lau\, contributor to and representative of Best Canadian Poetry 2025\, alongside fellow poets Stephen Collis\, Jess Housty\, Zehra Naqvi\, Michael Turner\, shō yamagushiku\, and Daniel Zomparelli. Entrancing\, surprising\, and memorable: The Poetry Bash is a gateway to discovering new-to-you poets or hearing your favourites. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, October 24 at 8:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Best Canadian Poetry 2025 here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2025 \nSelected by editor Aislinn Hunter\, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2023. \nFeaturing: \nHollie Adams • George Amabile • Erin Bedford • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Elisabeth Blair • Ronna Bloom • Alison Braid-Fernandez • Robert Bringhurst • Emily Cann • Anne Carson • Molly Cross-Blanchard • Lorna Crozier • Kayla Czaga • Evelyna Ekoko-Kay • Kate Genevieve • Susan Gillis • Sue Goyette • Catherine Graham • Henry Heavyshield • Gerald Hill • Alexander Hollenberg • Kim June Johnson • Eve Joseph • Evelyn Lau • Y. S. Lee • D. A. Lockhart • Fareh Malik • David Martin • Domenica Martinello • Cassidy McFadzean • Carmelita McGrath • Erín Moure • Tolu Oloruntoba • Catherine Owen • Molly Peacock • Miranda Pearson • Pauline Peters • Amanda Proctor • Shannon Quinn • Armand Garnet Ruffo • Anne Simpson • Carolyn Smart • Karen Solie • Catherine St. Denis • Owen Torrey • Michael Trussler • Sara Truuvert • Rob Winger • Jaeyun Yoo \nABOUT AISLINN HUNTER \nAislinn Hunter is an award-winning poet and novelist living on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her most recent book of poetry is Linger\, Still (Gaspereau Press)\, winner of the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-poetry-2025-vancouver-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at Vancouver Writers Fest: The Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, author of Your Absence Is Darkness\, trans. by Philip Roughton\, will be at Vancouver Writers Fest for the panel “The Conversations.” Jón will be joined by Anne Enright and Myriam J. A. Chancy for a discussion moderated by Aislinn Hunter (Best Canadian Poetry 2025). Back-to-back conversations with the three international authors probe the writing life and bring up questions about love\, intergenerational bonds\, and possibility.  \nThe event will be at the Granville Island Stage on Friday\, October 25 at 1PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \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.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-vancouver-writers-fest-1/
LOCATION:Granville Island Stage\, 1585 Johnston Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at Vancouver Writers Fest: The Literary Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, author of Your Absence Is Darkness\, trans. by Philip Roughton\, will be at Vancouver Writers Fest for the Literary Cabaret! Jón will be joined by fellow authors Roddy Doyle\, Anne Enright\, Richard Powers\, Brandon Taylor\, and Ayelet Tsabari. At the helm of the Vancouver Writers Fest flagship event is Musical Director Benjamin Millman\, and his band\, The Oxymorons. \nThe event will be at Performance Works on Saturday\, October 26 at 8PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \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.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-vancouver-writers-fest-2/
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