The 31st International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has started and several 91亚色 professors and alumni are on the bill. 91亚色 alumnus Jian Ghomeshi (right) (BA 鈥95) of CBC Radio will host and moderate 鈥淐elebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards鈥, which will launch the new book Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of […]
91亚色 English Professor Michael Helm is up for yet another literary prize for his novel Cities of Refuge. Last week he was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; this week he鈥檚 been selected as one of five finalists for the Rogers Writers鈥 Trust Fiction Prize announced by the Writers鈥 Trust of Canada yesterday. Along with […]
91亚色 English Professor Michael Helm likens writing novels to driving bumper to bumper at 120 kilometres an hour for half a day, and being emotionally and physically spent by the end. That鈥檚 on good days. 鈥淵ou have to concentrate so hard, but when you get out of the car, you鈥檙e just so exhausted. I always […]
Professor Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. Helm's novel has attracted media attention through reviews and interviews. Helm's brother, Richard, interviewed him about the novel May 2 in the Edmonton Journal: It's a tricky business this, writing about […]
Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. His is the author of The Projectionist, which was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, and In the Place of Last Things, a regional Commonwealth Writers鈥 Prize for Best Book. The Globe & […]