Since its inception in 1974, The International Festival of Authors has played an important role in the cultural life of Canada. IFOA presents international novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and biographers, and provides them with an internationally recognized forum in which to present their work.
Thunder Bay Public Library, Lakehead University, Northern Woman's Bookstore and Thunder Bay Art Gallery are pleased to host the fourth annual IFOA Ontario reading, with Lisa Laco of CBC Radio as Master of Ceremonies. Come and join authors Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Alison Pick, and Michael Winter as they read from their latest novels at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery on Thursday November 6 at 7 pm.
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the author of the novels Perfecting and The Nettle Spinner, as well as the story collection Way Up. On Thursday Kuitenbrouwer presents All the Broken Things, a captivating novel about loyalty and acceptance and the ties that bind us together. The story follows fourteen-year-old Bo from Vietnam, who lives in a small house in a Toronto neighbourhood with his mother. He has a younger sister who is disfigured and whose future he takes upon himself to protect. It is written in a way that is both sad and hopeful. Each branch of TBPL has a copy of this book, published in 2014 by Random House of Canada in Toronto.
Alison Pick is the author of Far to Go, named a Top 10 of 2010 Book by NOW Magazine and the Toronto Star. Pick presents a memoir entitled Between Gods, Published by Doubleday Canada in 2014. The book is a memoir of her life journey. Born in the 70’s and raised in a loving family, she discovered a secret when she reaches her teens that changed her life. She learns that her grandparents were Jewish, had escaped from the Czechoslovakia during World War II, and that many members of her family had suffered and subsequently died in concentration camps. She struggles with this truth which takes her a lifetime journey to accept so that she can at last look forward to the future.
Michael Winter is the author of many well-known novels, including The Architects Are Here. Recipient of the Writers' Trust Notable Author Award, Winter presents his first non-fiction book, Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead, a gripping story of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the Battle of the Somme in World War I, one hundred years ago. This extraordinary narrative follows two parallel journeys. The first is of the young men who came from Newfoundland to join the regiment that led many of them to their deaths at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The second journey is the author’s, taken a century later as he walks in their footsteps to discover what remains of their passage through memory. Published by Doubleday in 2014, there are two copies on order for the Thunder Bay Public Library.
If this sounds intriguing, pick up your ticket(s) at the Waverley Library, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, or the Northern Womans’ Bookstore then head over to the Thunder Bay Art Gallery at Confederation College, 1080 Keewatin Street for 7:00 pm this coming Thursday. You can call the Waverley Library at 684-6811 for more information. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council’s Ontario Touring Program.
Caron E Naysmith
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