Markham Arts Council's second
annual
International Festival of Authors
Tuesday October 23, 2012.
International Festival of Authors
Tuesday October 23, 2012.
Last year Markham’s first ever IFOA event presented four
world renowned authors to a sold out audience for an evening of wine, world
cuisine and literary readings along with an audience Q&A with TVO
personality, Thom Ernst.
On Tuesday October 23, 2012, Mayor Frank Scarpitti will be
hosting the “Mayor’s Hour: World and Wine Cuisine” reception, welcoming this
year’s headlining author and past recipient of the prestigious Scotiabank
Giller Prize–Dr. Vincent Lam, along with international world renowned authors:
Marjorie Celona, Ayesha Chatterjee and
Chan Koonchung.
This year the Mayor’s Hour held in the lobby of FlatoMarkham Theatre will include authors meet-and-greet, an exciting visual arts
exhibit and performances by award winning YorkSlam performers. The reception
will be followed by Author Readings and Q & A.
Tickets for “The Mayor’s Hour: World and Wine Cuisine” are
$65.00 (reception begins at 6pm)
Tickets for Author Readings and Q & A only are $18.00
(readings begin at 7:15pm)
Authors:
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| Marjorie Celona |
Marjorie Celona (Canada) was born and raised in Victoria,
B.C. and lives in Cincinnati. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,
where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Ailene Barger Barnes
Prize. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading,
Harvard Review, Glimmer Train and Crazyhorse. Celona’s debut novel, Y, tells
the unforgettable story of a newborn baby dropped on a YMCA doorstep, and that
of her mother, who is just a girl herself.
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| Ayesha Chatterjee |
Born and raised in Kolkata, Ayesha Chatterjee (India) has
lived in England, the USA and Germany, and currently resides in Toronto. Her
work gained notice when one of her poems was shortlisted in the Guardian
Unlimited Poetry Workshop in October 2004. Her poetry has appeared
innthposition, Autumn Sky Poetry and BluSlate. In 2010, she read at the Poetry
with Prakriti Festival in Chennai, India. Her first poetry collection,The
Clarity of Distance, is a meditation on the complexity of existence and the
search for moments of truth within it.
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| Chan Koonchung |
Chan Koonchung (Canada/Hong Kong) is a novelist, journalist
and screenwriter. Born in Shanghai and raised and educated in Hong Kong, he
studied at the University of Hong Kong and Boston University. He has published
more than a dozen Chinese-language books and in 1976 founded the magazine City,
of which he was the chief editor and then publisher for 23 years. He has been a
producer on more than 13 films. Banned in China, Koonchung’s politically charged
novel The Fat Years tells the story of the search for an entire month erased
from official Chinese history.
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| Vincent Lam |
Physician and author Vincent Lam (Canada) is from the
expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and was born in Canada. He is a
lecturer with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University
of Toronto and has worked in international air evacuation and expedition
medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. Lam’s first book, Bloodletting and
Miraculous Cures, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and has recently been adapted
for television and broadcast on HBO Canada. Lam’s The Headmaster’s Wadger tells the story of
Percival, a gambling, womanizing, corrupt headmaster at a prestigious English
school in Saigon.
Tickets:
To purchase tickets, call the Markham Arts Council at
905-947-9054 or Flato Markham Theatre at 905-305-SHOW (7469)
Generally About Books is IFOA-Markham's community partner
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