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Meet the Author SeriesThis is an opportunity to interact with three exciting, contemporary authors in an intimate setting and an open-ended discussion format so as to embrace the interests of all participants. Be prepared for a series of evenings rife with intellectual stimulation and social camaraderie!Fall Session 2009 Ann Eriksson, author of In the Hands of Anubis (January 21, 2010) Spring Session 2009 John Asfour, author of One Fish from a Rooftop (May 28, 2009) Timothy Taylor, author of Story House (June 18, 2009) Winter Session 2009 Paul Sunga, author of Red Sky, Red Dust (February 28, 2009) Summer Session 2008 Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo (July 26, 2008) Claire Mulligan, author of The Reckoning of Boston Jim (August 23, 2008)  Timothy Taylor (June 18, 2009) Download PDFTimothy Taylor is the recipient of the National Magazine Award, and winner of the Journey Prize. His debut novel, Stanley Park, was nominated for the Giller Prize and chosen for the 2004 One Book, One Vancouver book club. His short fiction has appeared in many of Canada's leading literary magazines. He was born in Venezuela and now lives in Vancouver. In Story House, Taylor takes on the eccentric world of architectural design – with boxing, fishing and reality TV thrown in. Half-brothers Graham and Elliot Gordon are the only sons of a famous architect. The boys are openly hostile towards each other, until their father decides they will settle their differences in the boxing ring. Three rounds and twenty years later, the story reconvenes as the brothers come together to reconstruct a nostalgic piece of architecture, with the help of a popular reality TV show. Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst  John Asfour (May 28, 2009) Download PDFJohn Asfour is a Lebanese-Canadian poet, writer, and teacher. At the age of 13, a grenade exploded in his face during the Lebanon crisis, leaving him blind. Asfour is the author of four books of poetry in English and two in Arabic. He translated the poetry of Muhammed al-Maghut into English under the title Joy is Not my Profession, and he selected, edited and introduced the landmark anthology When the Words Burn: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry. We are blessed to have Asfour join us at the Lyceum during his stay in Vancouver. Asfour is the inaugural writer in residence at the Joy Kogawa House, where he will be working on his latest book, Blindfold. The poems in this work will explore feelings of loss, displacement and disorientation experienced by the disabled while relating those themes to those experienced by immigrants. Asfour suggests that the disabled often feel like foreigners in their own land, hampered by prejudice, communications barriers and the sense of “limited personality” that also characterizes the second-language learner. While at the Lyceum, Asfour will read selections of his work written while in Vancouver. The images created by this poetry will remain with you for a very long time. He will accompany some of his words with lute playing. Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst June Hutton (April 23rd, 2009) Download PDF  June Hutton was born and raised in East Vancouver. She travelled to the north to ride a two-man boat down the Teslin and Yukon rivers as research for her debut novel Underground. Currently she resides in Vancouver and is a member of the SPiN writing group. Underground is the story of one man’s epic journey to find a place to belong where he can take root and thrive. This journey spans twenty years, two wars and thousands of miles. Al Fraser’s struggle will pull you from your world and leave you in his, where you will stay long after you finish the last page. “June Hutton has found poetry in the underground worlds of wartime trenches, Chinatown tunnels, depression-era work camps, and the bomb craters of the Spanish Civil War. In this novel, Al Fraser’s remarkable story has been given voice by a wise and generous writer.”- author Jack Hodgins Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst Paul Sunga (February 28th, 2009) Download PDF  After exploring and mastering many occupations, Paul Sunga now divides his time between writing, teaching pathophysiology and infectous disease at Langara College, and global research. His most recent book, Red Dust, Red Sky is set in the last years of apartheid: a time of violence, courageous defiance and secrecy. In the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, Kokoanyana comes of age amidst concealment, obscure events and dangerous perspectives. This book is both engaging and enlightening as it takes the reader to another world where he/she vicariously experiences great beauty, complexity and peril. “...voluptuous, mysterious...wonderfully real...” “In an age when many authors would attempt magic realism, Paul Sunga has achieved... a story that not only takes form from the blowing dust but also hardens into smooth planes and craggy outcroppings.” - Prairie Review of Books, Randy McIlroy Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst Evelyn Lau (January 22, 2009)  Evelyn Lau was born in Vancouver in 1971 to Chinese immigrants. Writing was her means to psychological survival. Lau claims to have been conscious of her urge to become a writer since she was six. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid became a bestseller when it was published in 1989 and Fresh Girls & Other Stories (1993) established her as one of Canada’s leading writers.Evelyn will engage in discussion about her latest collection of poetry, Treble. “This would seem to be ‘everything we expect of Lau’, to quote the back cover of the book, but there is also an elegance to her writing, an attention to the details of relationships, and definitely a lyrical precision.”- Jacqueline Turner, The Georgia Straight Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst Claire Mulligan (August 23, 2008)
“The writing is lush and vivid in its detail. It carefully evokes a world precariously poised between old and new, civilization and savagery. It is a world in flux, and oftentimes out of balance. In fact, Boston Jim’s struggle for reckoning is but a microcosm for the larger problems of humanity, and, as such, his tragic attempt to restore that balance.” - Backwater Reviews. This is an impeccably researched historical novel, written with a contemporary hand that will engage readers from many walks of life. Boston Jim Milroy has lived a life indelibly scarred and chosoes to cope by exiling himself to a trappers life. A simple kindness from Dora Hume affects him deeply and he becomes obsessed with the notion of recompensing her for the deed. Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst Steven Galloway (July 26th, 2008)
A wayward shell lands on a bread line and kills twenty-two people. A cellist witnesses the incident from a window in his flat. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play once a day for twenty-two days, in honour of the victims. In this beautiful, haunting novel, Steven Galloway creates a story that does homage to the dignity and generosity of the human spirit under extraordinary duress. “Indelible imagery and heartbreaking characters give authority to this chilling story and make human a crisis typically overlooked in literature.” - Kirkus Reviews Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst Heather Burt (June 19th, 2008)
Adam's Peak is a riveting comedy/tragedy set against compelling landscapes. Readers are sure to recognize friends and neighbours in the complex characters that jump off the pages of this book. The Vantwest and Fraser families have little to do with each other as neighbours, until an accident and an act of terror force them together irrevocably. Lesley Hughes of the Winnipeg Free Press writes, “The plot deftly leaps several decades, from the 1940s to the present, longer than that if you count memories, and bridges Great Britain, Sri Lanka, and Canada with a political sophistication worthy of a much more mature writer.” Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM Cost: $35.00 + gst |
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