Lee Maracle Lee Maracle (Canada) has been published in anthologies and scholarly journals worldwide, and is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels and works of non-fiction. She was born in North Vancouver and is a member of the Stó:l¯o Nation. She is currently an instructor at both the University of Toronto and Banff Centre for the Arts, and has received the Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work promoting writing among Aboriginal youth. Maracle presents her latest novel, Celia’s Song, which chronicles one Native family’s harrowing experiences over several generations, after tthe brutality, interference and neglect resulting from contact with Europeans. ROUND TABLE: Friday, October 31, 7:30pm. SDT READING: Saturday, November 1, 5pm. LST
Valerie Martin
© Jerry Bauer
Valerie Martin (USA) is the author of nine novels, including Trespass, Italian Fever, The Great Divorce, Mary Reilly and the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction winner, Property. She has also published three collections of short fiction. Martin presents The Ghost of Mary Celeste, a captivating, atmospheric piece of historical fiction. In 1872, the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain, her cargo intact but the crew gone. They were never found. This maritime mystery lies at the centre of an intricate narrative branching through the highest levels of late 19th-century literary society. ROUND TABLE: Wednesday, October 29, 5:30pm. SDT
Eimear McBride
Supported by Simon & Schuster Canada
© Jemma Mickleburgh
Eimear McBride (UK) is a critically acclaimed debut novelist from Ireland. She presents A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which won the 2013 Goldsmith’s Prize and the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. The novel explores a young woman’s relationship with her brother, the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour and her sexual awakening, all told in a stream-of-consciousness style that drops the reader directly into the protagonist’s mind. READING: Wednesday, October 29, 7:30pm. FDT
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