Readers for 2011
Saturday July 23rd, 7pm
Linden MacIntyre, (SOLD OUT) reporter, editor, radio and TV host, investigative journalist, freedom of information activist, and writer, grew up in Cape Breton. Winner of many awards, including nine Geminis and three Gordon Sinclair Awards, he is probably best known for his association with CBC Radio's Sunday Morning, CBC Television's The MacIntyre File, The Journal, The Fifth Estate, and PBS's Frontline. He has published a memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence (2006), the non fiction Who Killed Ty Conn (2000) co-authored with Theresa Burke, and the first two novels of a trilogy: The Long Stretch (1999) and The Bishop's Man. The third novel in the trilogy, Why Men Lie (in which Effie Gillis "watches the men around her get older and stupider") will be published by Random House in April 2012.
Saturday August 6th, 7pm
Howard Norman is returning to Port Medway for another famous evening at the Old Meeting House. Norman's work shows an affinity for Canada's North, the Atlantic Provinces, and Nova Scotia in particular. His first two novels, The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist were each shortlisted for National Book Awards. His other novels include The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, Devotion, and most recently What Is Left the Daughter. Norman has also published two travel memoirs, My Famous Evening (Nova Scotia) and In Fond Remembrance of Me (the Canadian Arctic). His next memoir, I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place, will be published in 2012, along with a new novel, Next Life Might Be Kinder. Norman will be one of the three jurors for the 2011 Giller Prize.
Saturday August 20th
Margaret Atwood, (SOLD OUT) also returning to Port Medway, shared Tel Aviv University's 2010 Dan David Award, given to authors “whose work provides vivid, compelling, and groundbreaking depictions of 20th century life, rousing public discussion and inspiring fellow writers.” The judges said Atwood’s “three dystopian novels, The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Oryx and Crake (2003), and The Year of the Flood (2009) envision the dangers made possible by trends of the twentieth century” and that her work “enabled, for the first time, the emergence of a defined Canadian identity, while exploring both national and transnational issues, such as colonization, feminism, structures of political power and oppression, and the violation and exploitation of nature.”
Sunday August 21st
Graeme Gibson, writer, teacher, and cultural and enviornmental activist, is the author of the novels Five Legs (1969), Communion (1971), Perpetual Motion (1982), Gentleman Death (1993); Eleven Canadian Novelists (interviews, 1973); and The Bedside Book of Birds ( a miscellany, 2005). He is a past president of PEN Canada and is a member of the Order of Canada. He has been a council member of World Wildlife Fund Canada, and with Margaret Atwood, was Special Guest of the Nova Scotia Nature Trust annual dinner (2009).