Lampedusa by Steven Price
If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the opportunity to attend the .
The series gives attendees an opportunity to get up close and personal with an eclectic group of 11 authors while having the unique opportunity to engage with them in a dialogue about their work.
Canadian Writers in Person is a for-credit course for students. It is also a free-admission event for members of the public. All readings take place at 7 p.m. on select Tuesday evenings via Zoom. Links for each reading can be found here: .
This year's lineup consists of a unique selection of emerging and established Canadian writers, whose writing explores a broad range of topics and geographical and cultural landscapes. Featuring seasoned and emerging poets and fiction writers, the series highlights Canada's ever-growing literary talent.
The series will continue on Oct. 6, whenÌýSteven Price reads from his novel (Penguin Random House Canada).
Price is the author of other two novels, By GaslightÌý(2016), longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, andÌýInto That DarknessÌý(2011). Also an acclaimed poet, he has written two award-winning poetry books,ÌýAnatomy of KeysÌý(2006), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award, andÌýOmens in the Year of the OxÌý(2012), winner of the ReLit Award. He lives in Victoria, B.C.
In Lampedusa, set in sun-drenched Sicily among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the historical record,ÌýLampedusaÌýleaps effortlessly into the mindÌýof the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time. Price's new novel is an intensely moving story of one man's awakening to the possibilities of life, intimately woven against the transformative power of a great work of art.
Other presentations scheduled in this series are:
- Oct. 27: Rebecca Fisseha, Ìý(Goose Lane)
- Nov. 10: Michael Prior, (Penguin Random House Canada)
- Nov. 24: Megan Gail Coles, (House of Anansi Press)
- Dec. 8: Sharon Butala, (Coteau Books)
2021
- Jan. 19: Carol Rose GoldenEagle,Ìý(Nightwood Editions)
- Feb. 2: S.D. Chrostowska, (Coach House Books)
- Feb. 23: Kaie Kellough, Ìý(Vehicule Press)
- March 9: Terry Watada, Ìý(Anvil Press)
- March 23: Cecily Nicholson, Ìý(Talonbooks)
Canadian Writers in Person (AP/CLTR 1953 6.0A) is a course offered in the Culture & Expression program in the Department of Humanities in 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. For more information on the series, visit , or email Professor Gail Vanstone at gailv@yorku.ca or Professor Leslie Sanders at leslie@yorku.ca.