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Literary Events
2015-2016
Writing War: An Evening with
Margaret MacMillan and Charlotte Gray
April, 2015
Award-winning historians Margaret MacMillan
and Charlotte Gray discuss the challenge of
describing battles and the necessity of giving
meaning to tragedy.
The Right to Free Expression
May, 2015
Ioan Grillo, author of Narco, a definitive account
of Mexico's drug cartels, and Cecil Rosner, CBC
managing editor and author of Behind the
Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism
in Canada, discuss working in a country where
free expression is more a fight than a right, and
why North Americans should care.
Ideas in Dialogue: Fighting Words
June, 2015
How, in a culture saturated with violent images,
have words — and, occasionally, cartoons —
retained the power to harm, exclude, objectify
and disparage others? Joseph Boyden and
Andrew Pyper discuss the challenges of writing
intelligently about hateful subjects. Moderated by
Becky Toyne.
Japan-Canada Literary Conversations:
A Woman’s Image: From Anne of Green Gables
to The Ghost Brush
October 2015
Japanese translator and novelist Yuko Matsumoto
and Canadian author Katherine Govier explore
images of women in Japan, Matsumoto through
her translation of Anne of Green Gables into
Japanese, and Govier through her writing of The
Ghost Brush. Moderated by Ayako Sato.
Serious Illustration: Telling difficult stories
in books for children
Japanese children’s book critic Akira Nogami
speaks about the challenges of conveying the
tragic experience of Hiroshima-Nagasaki through
manga and discusses writing about difficult topics
for children with Canadian children’s author
Jennifer Lanthier.
Writing about War: Jiro Asada and John Ralston
Saul in conversation
Award-winning Japanese novelist and President
of PEN Japan Jiro Asada discusses the challenges
of writing about war with Canadian public
intellectual and president of PEN International
John Ralston Saul.
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