Calgary lit-lovers will finally be able to meet their favourite authors in person this year as Wordfest brings back its Imaginairium, which will see eight days worth of literary events featuring more than 60 authors from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6.
That includes Douglas Stuart, who won the Booker Prize for his 2020 novel Shuggie Bain and released Young Mungo earlier this year as a followup. The Times columnist Ben Macintyre, also the bestselling author of 12 non-fiction books, will also be on hand to discuss his newest work, Prisoners of the Castle.
Other authors scheduled to attend include Anishinaabe novelist Waubgeshig Rice, Norway House Cree Nation writer David A. Robertson and Oji-Cree/nehiyaw novelist and poet Joshua Whitehead.Article content Second-generation author Georgia Toews, daughter of CanLit favourite Miriam Toews and author of the darkly comic Hey, Good Luck Out There, will be featured at an event with Montreal translator and author Neil Smith, whose most recent novel is Jones. Hosted by writer Zsuzsi Gartner, the two writers will discuss how they drew on personal experience to develop their novels.Article content
On Oct. 6, the final day of the festival, former mayor Naheed Nenshi will host Celebrating Calgary: Laureate-A-Rama at the DJD Dance Centre. The event will bring together all five of Calgary’s former poet laureates for the first time, including Derek Beaulieu, Kris Demeanor, Micheline Maylor, Natalie Meisner and Sheri-D Wilson with current poet laureate Wakefield Brewster.
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