Jane Urquhart

When Governor General’s Award–winning novelist Jane Urquhart finishes writing a novel, she says she never knows whether another one is going to happen; it always seems like an act of such “unlikely magic”. Luckily for her readers, this magic occurs quite regularly. In Sanctuary Line, as in her ... (more)six previous novels, Urquhart’s lyrical confidence sings as loudly as ever. The tale, weaving elements from nineteenth-century Ireland and Ontario into gradually unfolding contemporary events in the lives of one family, also threads together three different but very powerful love stories. Tonight is a rare opportunity to sit with a Canadian master and indulge in the art of her smooth prose. Tickets $25.

Jane Urquhart, author of The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, and A Map of Glass and winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Marian Engel Award, the Governor General’s Award, and the Trillium Prize, joins author and CBC host Bill Richardson to ... (more)talk about her new transcontinental novel, Sanctuary Line. Be there for a fascinating and free–ranging onstage conversation with one of Canada’s most celebrated writers. Venue: Islandview Room, Holiday Inn. Tickets: $12.50.

For more information contact the Ottawa International Writers Festival. She is also appearing at 8:30pm: EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS Daniel Poliquin, Jane Urquhart and Mark Kingwell Hosted by John Ralston Saul