Festival artists on Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist
Festival artists on Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist
October 6, 2014 (Toronto, ON) Wordfest congratulates Sean Michaels, Miriam Toews, Padma Viswanathan and Heather O'Neill for making the shortlist for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Be sure to catch these writers and over 80 others at the 19th annual Wordfest, October 14-19!
Sean Michaels presents Us Conductors, a novel inspired by the life of the Russian scientist, inventor and spy Lev Termen, and presented in a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondences, taking the reader from the glamorous New York in the 1930s to the gulags and scientific camps of the Soviet Union.
Writers and Mixtapes: Pechakucha Style – Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
Wordfest and National Music Centre present Sean Michaels – Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Ryeberg Live – Sunday, October 19th, 2014
Miriam Toews presents her much-anticipated novel, All My Puny Sorrows, the riveting story of two sisters and a love that illuminates life. She is the author of five bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, which was a Canada Reads Canadian Bestseller of the Decade 2010, The Flying Troutmans and Irma Voth.
Darkness Visible – Friday, October 17th, 2014
Governor General’s Literary Awards Celebration – Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Padma Viswanathan presents her newest work, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, which is set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing. Originally born in Edmonton, the author now resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Readers Choice – Thursday, October 16th, 2014
Darkness Visible – Friday, October 17th, 2014
Heather O'Neill presents her latest novel, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, about twins Noushcka and Nicolas Tremblay, children of a legendary folksinger who face controversies in the media spotlight.
Gals and Good Times – Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Ryeberg Live – Sunday, October 19th, 2014
The Scotiabank Giller Prize will air on CBC Television on Monday, Nov. 10 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) with host Jian Ghomeshi of CBC Radio’s Q. Celebrate the announcements in Calgary at the Scotiabank Giller Light Bash, hosted by Calgary's first poet laureate & musician, Kris Demeanor! More information at gillerlightbash.com
