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Wordfest
Wordfest is a not-for-profit arts organization that produces one of Canada's largest international Literary festival, literary festivals, taking place each October in Calgary, Alberta. In addition to the yearly festival, Wordfest also facilitates and hosts year-round events, including poetry and spoken word performances, current event panels, publishing industry workshops, art installations, and youth and multilingual programming. History Wordfest originated as an idea conceived by Donald Stein, then associate director of the Banff Centre, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, who in 1996 envisioned the coordination of a southern Albertan writers' festival. He contacted Darlene Quaife, then president of the Writers Guild of Alberta, Writer's Guild of Alberta, and Peter Oliva, then owner of Pages Books on Kensington in Calgary, and together the three "assembled a team that reads like an honour roll of Calgary's literary community at the time" including booksellers, writers, a ''Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Festival
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and fostering a love of literature and writing. Writers' conferences are sometimes designed to provide an intellectual and academic focus for groups of writers without the involvement of the general public. There are many literary festivals held around the world. Notable literary festivals include: Africa * Port Harcourt Book Festival, October 20–25 * Chinua Achebe Literary Festival, November 16 Asia Asia-Pacific * Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), held annually at Ubud, Bali in Indonesia (www.ubudwritersfestival.com) * Gateway Litfest, February/ March * Delhi Poetry Festival, Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary
Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Calgary is at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the southwest of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Calgary's economy includes activity in many sectors: energy; financial services; film and television; transportation and logistics; technology; manufacturing; aerospace; health and wellness; retail; and tourism. The Calgary Metropolitan Region is home to Canada' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilly Singh
Lilly Singh (born September 26, 1988) is a Canadian YouTuber, television host, comedian and author. She began making YouTube videos in 2010. She originally appeared under the pseudonym Superwoman (stylized IISuperwomanII), her YouTube username until 2019. Singh released her documentary ''A Trip to Unicorn Island'' (2016) and her first book ''How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life'' (2017), which was a New York Times Best Seller, ''New York Times'' Best Seller. From September 2019 to June 2021, Singh acted as executive producer and host of the NBC late-night talk show ''A Little Late with Lilly Singh''. She is the first person of Indian descent to host an American late-night talk show. Early life and education Singh was born and raised in the Scarborough, Ontario, Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her parents, Malvindar Kaur and Sukvindar Singh, are Indian Canadians, Indian Punjabi Canadians, Punjabi immigrants from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India and raised he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Slade
Arthur Gregory Slade (born July 9, 1967 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author. A resident of Saskatoon, he was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills and began writing in high school. He attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and received an English Honours degree in 1989. His first short story was published that same year. He then worked as a night auditor at a hotel for several months and as a copywriter for a radio station in Saskatoon for several years. Slade became a full-time writer after the publication of his first novel for middle years, ''Draugr'', followed by others such as ''Dust'' and ''Tribes''. His novel ''Dust'' received the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in 2001, and ''The Hunchback Assignments'' won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler and a fictional character of his creation. Handler has published various children's books under the name, including ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, 2004 film and Netflix A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series), TV series from 2017 to 2019 of the same name. Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe author who investigates and re-tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Snicket is also the subject of a fictional autobiography titled ''Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography''. Further telling of Snicket's adventures can be found in the four-part children's series ''All the Wrong Questions'', as well as a pamphlet titled ''13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket'' (released in promotion of ''The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events), The En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Roth
Veronica Anne Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her bestselling ''Divergent'' trilogy which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide. Personal and early life Veronica Roth was born on August 19, 1988, in New York City, and was raised primarily in Barrington, Illinois. Her mother, Barbara Ross, is a painter who resides in Barrington. She is the youngest of three children. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her mother remarried to Frank Ross, a financial consultant for landscaping companies. Her brother and sister live in the Chicago area. Roth is of German and Polish descent. Roth says of her father: "He had a job, and worked far away. Now I have a good relationship with my stepdad." Her maternal grandparents were concentration camp survivors, whose religious convictions pushed her mother away from religion. Roth learned about Christianity by attending a Christian Bible study during her high school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, '' The Englishman's Boy'', '' The Last Crossing'', and ''A Good Man'' set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection '' Man Descending'' in 1982, the second for his novel '' The Englishman's Boy'' in 1996, and the third for his short story collection ''Daddy Lenin and Other Stories'' in 2015. Life and career Guy Vanderhaeghe was born on April 5, 1951, in Esterhazy, a mining town in southeastern Saskatchewan. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with great distinction in 1971, High Honours in History in 1972 and Master of Arts in History in 1975, all from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1978 he received his Bachelor of Education with great distinction from the University of Regina. In 1973 he was Research Officer, Institute for Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart, LL.D (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day. Her first novel, '' The Whirlpool'' (published 1986), gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Her subsequent novels were even more successful. ''Away'', published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller. In 1997, her fourth novel, '' The Underpainter'', won the Governor General's Literary Award. Early life Urquhart was born June 21, 1949, in Little Longlac, a small mining town in northern Ontario. She is the daughter of a mining engineer, Walter Andrew Carter, and Marian Quinn. Quinn grew up on a farm with a large family of six brothers and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and ''Barney's Version (novel), Barney's Version'' (1997). His 1970 novel ''St. Urbain's Horseman'' and 1989 novel ''Solomon Gursky Was Here'' were nominated for the Booker Prize. He is also well known for the ''Jacob Two-Two'' fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the History of the Jews in Canada, Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian nationalism, Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's ''Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!'' (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy. Biography Early life and education The son of Lily (née Rosenberg) and Moses Isaac Richler, a scrap metal dealer, Richler was born on January 27, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec, and raised on Saint Urbain Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the present. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an oral tradition. Although he is known as a master of the short story, MacLeod's 1999 novel '' No Great Mischief'' was voted Atlantic Canada's greatest book of all time. The novel also won several literary prizes including the 2001 International Dublin Literary Award. In 2000, MacLeod's two books of short stories, '' The Lost Salt Gift of Blood'' (1976) and '' As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories'' (1986), were re-published in the volume '' Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas King (novelist)
Thomas King (born April 24, 1943) is an American-born Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations.Thomas King in ''''. Early life and education Thomas Hunt King was born in Roseville, California, on April 24, 1943. He self-identifies as being of , Greek, and German descent. "I'm Cherokee and Greek," he told the CBC in 2020. Yet according to the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
