The festival’s feature presentation sees Marsha Lederman in conversation with Jane Urquhart, the award-winning author of seven internationally acclaimed novels: The Whirlpool, which received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; Changing Heaven; Away, winner of the Trillium Award and a nalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General’s Award, a finalist for the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and long-listed for the Orange Prize in Britain; The Stone Carvers, which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize; A Map of Glass, a finalist for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; Sanctuary Line; and most recently, her new book A Number of Things. After the presentation, meet Lederman and Urquhart while our very own local musicians play some of their favourite selections of jazz and blues.
Presented by Stonebridge at Whistler.
