Incite @ VPL: An Exploration of Books and Ideas
Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch, Wednesday, January 16 at 7pm
Incite @ VPL: An Exploration of Books and Ideas
A program open to all ages
Wednesday January 16, 7:30 pm-9:00 pm, Free
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
Join us for a night of award winners! Tamas Dobozy reads from Siege 13, winner of the Rogers Writers Trust Award for Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Awards; Candace Savage reads from A Geography of Blood, winner of the Hilary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction; and Tim Bowling reads from The Tinsmith, shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Award for Fiction.
Tamas Dobozy's Siege 13 is a collection of thirteen linked stories surrounding the siege of Budapest, recounting one of the fiercest and longest battles of the Second World War.
Candace Savage embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the eloquent landscape of southwestern Saskatchewan in A Geography of Blood.
Tim Bowlings recent novel, The Tinsmith, ranges from the battlefields of the American Civil War to the salmon canneries on Canadas West Coast in the late 1800s.
For more information please contact Vancouver Public Library at 604-331-3603
Sponsored by Vancouver Foundation and Vancouver Writers Fest
http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/ (starfishian)… (more)
A program open to all ages
Wednesday January 16, 7:30 pm-9:00 pm, Free
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
Join us for a night of award winners! Tamas Dobozy reads from Siege 13, winner of the Rogers Writers Trust Award for Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Awards; Candace Savage reads from A Geography of Blood, winner of the Hilary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction; and Tim Bowling reads from The Tinsmith, shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Award for Fiction.
Tamas Dobozy's Siege 13 is a collection of thirteen linked stories surrounding the siege of Budapest, recounting one of the fiercest and longest battles of the Second World War.
Candace Savage embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the eloquent landscape of southwestern Saskatchewan in A Geography of Blood.
Tim Bowlings recent novel, The Tinsmith, ranges from the battlefields of the American Civil War to the salmon canneries on Canadas West Coast in the late 1800s.
For more information please contact Vancouver Public Library at 604-331-3603
Sponsored by Vancouver Foundation and Vancouver Writers Fest
http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/ (starfishian)… (more)
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