Degrees of Nowhere: A Geography of Canadian Writing literary events continue at Toronto Public Library branches through to the end of November. Events for the week beginning November 19 are listed below:
Wayne Johnston
Pape/Danforth Branch, 701 Pape Avenue, 416-393-7727 Monday, November 19, 2007, 7 p.m.
Alistair MacLeod
Maryvale Branch, Parkway Mall, 85 Ellesmere Road, 416-396-8931 Monday, November 19, 2007, 7 p.m.
Locke Branch, 3083 Yonge Street, 393-393-7730 Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 7 p.m.
Richview Branch, 1806 Islington Avenue, 416-394-5120 Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7 p.m.
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John's Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing.
En route to being published, Wayne earned an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of New Brunswick. Then he got off to a quick start. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley, published when he was just 27 years old, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel award for the best first novel published in the English language in Canada in that year. Subsequent books consistently received critical praise and increasing public attention.
Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He has published two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986). In 1999, MacLeod*s first novel, No Great Mischief, was published to great critical acclaim, and was on national bestseller lists for more than a year. The novel won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and at the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, MacLeod won for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year.
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