Smaro Kamboureli

Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson’s collection of short stories, Traplines, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and won the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Trickster Drift, its sequel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Doors open at 7:00pm. The event begins at 7:30pm sharp. A book signing will follow the dialogue. Noor Naga | The Ethics of Inspiration Noor Naga is an Alexandrian writer who was born in Philadelphia, raised in Dubai, studied in Toronto, and now lives in Cairo.

Paris in the interwar years was full of colorful characters, but June Mansfield Miller managed to stand out among them. She arrived in the City of Lights in 1931 as the dazzling second wife of the (then) struggling writer Henry Miller. A dancer and a free spirit, seductive and bold, she made an impression on Anaïs Nin, a writer and diarist in search of a muse who described June in breathy prose: June fed Nin’s creative powers.