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| Camille
Bouchard |
Camille
Bouchard (Can) has enjoyed a varied writing career,
creating comic strips, young adult and children's books
and a wide range of work for cinema, television and the
stage; his latest book for young readers is Les Larmes
de Viracocha.
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| Clem
Martini |
Clem
Martini (Can) is a Governor General's Award-winning
playwright and author who returns to WordFest with the latest
installment of his Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles
trilogy, The Judgement, and a guide to drama in
The Blunt Playwright.
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| Anne
Robillard |
Anne
Robillard (Can) had been penning fantasy stories
for many years before her series Les Chevaliers d'Émeraude
caught the attention of publishers; the ninth and latest
installment in this bestselling fantasy epic is L'héritage
de Danalieth. |
| Lemn
Sissay |
Lemn
Sissay (UK) is a renowned poet, playwright, editor,
filmmaker, recording artist and broadcast journalist; the
author of four poetry collections, he has performed his
work around the world and appeared on such seminal recordings
as Leftfield's Leftism.
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| Maxine
Trottier |
Maxine
Trottier (Can) is a prolific and award-winning
writer for youth whose home state of Michigan has named
a day in her honour; she comes to WordFest with the post-war
novel Three Songs for Courage. |
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| Susan
Juby |
Susan comes to
WordFest with the third novel in this amazing series, Alice
MacLeod: Realist at Last.
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| Richard
Harrison |
Richard moved
to Calgary in the mid-Nineties, and currently teaches creative
writing at Mount Royal College. He comes to WordFest this
year with a brand-new collection of poems, Worthy of
His Fall.
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| Baba
Brinkman |
Baba has toured
his hit theatre show The Rap Canterbury Tales to seven cities
around the world, including Prague, Montreal, Edinburgh
and San Francisco, and brings it with him this year to WordFest. |
| C.C.
Humphreys |
C.C. Humphreys
is an actor and writer who happily admits that the swashbuckling
hero of his latest series is his own fantasy alter-ego –
featured most recently in The Blooding of Jack Absolute.
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| Dave
Bidini |
Dave Bidini is
the guitar player for the well-known Canadian rock band,
the Rheostatics. He is also the author of The Tropic
of Hockey and On A Cold Road. His newest book,
For Those About to Rock, is a guidebook for any
teenager who has dreamed of being in a band and making it
big.
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| Jaclyn
Moriarty |
She is the acclaimed
Australian writer of Feeling Sorry for Celia. Moriarty
brings her delightful new novel, The Year of Secret
Assignments to this year’s festival. Moriarty’s books
have been well received internationally, especially by high
school students.
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| Garth
Nix |
Garth Nix counts
The Ragwitch, Sabriel, Shade’s Children and Lirael
among the multiple award-winning novels that feature his
original fantasy vision; his latest is the immensely popular
Abhorsen.
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| Carole
Fréchette |
Carole Fréchette
is one of the most recognized playwrights in Québec
theatre, and has also penned wonderfully lyrical novels
for young people such as the recently translated In
the Key of DO.
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| Dennis
Foon |
Dennis Foon is
an award-winning author, screenwriter and playwright; his
newest books for young people include the edgy coming-of-age
story SKUD and the stunning, evocative fantasy
The Dirt Eaters.
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| Shanon
Butala |
Sharon Butala
has given an important voice to rural women in her fiction;
her most recent works are the short story collection Real
Life and Old Man on His Back, with Courtney
Milne.
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| Michèle
Marineau |
Michèle
Marineau is a two-time Governor General’s Literary Award-winning
children's authornoted for her clarity and insight; her
work in English translation includes award-winners The
Road to Chlifa and Lean Mean Machines.
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| Arthur
Slade |
Arthur Slade
is a major new voice in children's literature; he won a
Governor General’s Literary Award in 2001 for Dust
and trains his sights on high school in his latest, Tribes.
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| Quincy
Troupe |
Quincy Troupe is a two-time
winner of the prestigious Heavyweight Champion of Poetry
award.
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| Ben
Gadd |
Ben Gadd is one
of the greatest living authorities on the natural world
of the Canadian Rockies.
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| Isobelle
Carmody |
Isobelle Carmody
is one of Australia's most highly regarded and prominent
authors of fantasy fiction.
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| Todd
Babiak |
Todd Babiak explores rural
life, definitions of "manhood" and the paradoxical allure
and pointlessness of violence in his quirkily original début
novel, Choke Hold.
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| Witi
Ihimaera |
Witi Ihimaera became the
first Maori novelist when he published Tangi in
1972, and has since distinguished himself as a novelist,
short story writer, playwright and librettist.
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| Mark
Jarman |
Mark Jarman is widely published
in numerous literary magazines and publications, is a novelist
and poet, and has earned critical praise for his latest,
darkly humorous short story collection 19 Knives.
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| Eden
Robinson |
Eden Robinson published her
first book - the award-winning story collection Traplines
- in 1996, and unites comedy with the dark underside of
life in her début novel Monkey Beach.
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| Leon
Rooke |
Leon Rooke has written six
novels and over a dozen story collections, and now adds
the irresistible high-octane road novel The Fall of
Gravity to his remarkable oeuvre.
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