Program Guide in pdf - Vancouver International Writers Festival

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TERRY FALLIS
ONTARIO, EVENTS 45, 47
Terry Fallis’s stint as president of the student union at
McMaster University translated into a career in politics.
Working as an assistant to Cabinet Ministers at Queen’s Park
and in Ottawa has provided him with plenty of material for
his political satires. His new book, The High Road, is a sequel
to his fi rst novel, The Best Laid Plans, which won the 2008 Stephen Leacock
Medal for Humour. In addition to writing, Fallis runs a public relations fi rm
which has offi ces in Ottawa and Toronto.
© CLARENCE JOHNSON
Terry Fallis’s appearance is supported by a generous donation to the Alma Lee Legacy Fund
by Dr. Yosef Wosk.
SAL FERRERAS
BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENT 46
Sal Ferreras is a percussionist, teacher and event organizer
who works in many facets of the Canadian music scene. He
was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2003.
He has a PhD in Ethnomusicology and is Dean of the Vancouver
Community College School of Music, Dance and Design. He
served as Producer/Creative Director of the successful Aboriginal Pavilion at
the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Ferreras and his all-star band, Poetic License,
consider the Literary Cabaret to be one of the highlights of their musical year.
GEORGE FETHERLING
BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 34, 56
George Fetherling has published fi fty books of poetry,
fi ction, memoirs, travel, criticism and history, including the
much-acclaimed Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties.
He is also former Literary Editor of both The Toronto Star and
the Kingston Whig-Standard, and has received a Harbourfront
Prize for his substantial contribution to Canadian letters. His latest book is a
novel, Walt Whitman’s Secret. He lives in Vancouver.
© DEREK SHAPTON © MERRILL FEARON
KEN FINKLEMAN
ONTARIO, EVENTS 47, 65
Ken Finkleman is a television and fi lm writer, producer and
actor. Although he is best known as the writer, creator and
producer of the CBC Television series The Newsroom, he
also produced Comedy Central’s Married Life and, for the
CBC, Foolish Heart, Foreign Objects, More Tears and At the
Hotel. He is currently at work on a new television series, Good Dog, which
will air on The Movie Network in early 2011. Noah’s Turn is his fi rst novel.
JON PAUL FIORENTINO
QUÉBEC, EVENTS 41, 44
Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of the novel Stripmalling,
which was shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for
Fiction, as well as three poetry collections, including The
Theory of the Loser Class, which was shortlisted for the A. M.
Klein Prize. His most recent collection is Indexical Elegies. He
lives in Montreal, where he teaches writing at Concordia University, edits Matrix
magazine and runs Snare Books.
CHARLES FORAN
ONTARIO, EVENT 43
Charles Foran has published eight books, including four
novels, and writes regularly for magazines and newspapers in
Canada and elsewhere. He is a contributing reviewer for the
Globe and Mail, and has made radio documentaries for the
CBC program Ideas—on subjects ranging from Hong Kong
cinema to contemporary Indian writing. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario with
his family. His new book is a biography, Mordecai: The Life and Times.
TESS GALLAGHER
UNITED STATES, EVENT 58
Tess Gallagher is the author of eight volumes of poetry,
including Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing Bridge, Amplitude
and the forthcoming Midnight Lantern: New and Selected
Poems. She has also published two volumes of essays,
Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray and A Concert of
Tenses, and two collections of short fi ction. Her latest, The Man from Kinvara:
Selected Stories, was published in 2009. She currently divides her time
between West Ireland and Washington state.
© LAGE CARLSON
CAMILLA GIBB
ONTARIO, EVENTS 7, 46
Camilla Gibb is the author of four novels—Mouthing the
Words, The Petty Details of So-and- so’s Life, Sweetness
in the Belly and, her latest, The Beauty of Humanity
Movement—as well as numerous short stories, articles and
reviews. She was the winner of the Trillium Book Award in
2006, was a Scotiabank Giller Prize short list nominee in 2005, won the City of
Toronto Book Award in 2000 and received the CBC Canadian Literary Award
in 2001. Gibb was one of two Canadians named to the prestigious Orange
Futures List, recognizing 21 promising international authors. She has also
served as vice-president of PEN Canada.
© KEVIN KELLY
© KAREN MOSKOWITZ
WILLIAM GIBSON
BRITISH COLUMBIA, EVENTS 34, 37
William Gibson is recognized as a pioneer of cyberfi ction with
his award-winning novels Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive,
The Difference Engine (co-written with Bruce Sterling), Virtual
Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties and Pattern Recognition.
Gibson lives in Vancouver. His latest novel is Zero History.
PAOLO GIORDANO
ITALY, EVENTS 9, 46
Paolo Giordano has the distinction of being the youngestever
winner of Italy’s prestigious literary award, the Premio
Strega. This accomplishment seems greater, considering it
was for his debut novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
The book has now been published in more than 38 countries.
Just 28 years old, Giordano is a professional physicist and has a PhD in
particle physics. He lives in Italy.
Paolo Giordano’s appearance is made possible by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.