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AFTER FIDEL
César Reynel Aguilera, Alexandre Trudeau, Ingrid Bejerman
A conversation about the bond between Canada and Cuba, and what's next following the death of Fidel Castro.
Friday Apr. 28 2017 4:00 PM Librairie Las Américas -
THE ALCHEMY OF POETRY
Stanka Hrastelj, Nathan Brown, Amir Or, Liz Howard
Liz Howard, winner of the 2016 Griffin Prize, award-winning Slovenian poet Stanka Hrastelj and acclaimed Israeli poet Amir Or explore how words and the physical world come together to create a poem. ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 12:30 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
THE AMERICAN FAR WEST: A EUROPEAN OBSESSION
David Treuer, Elma Moses, Martin Winckler, Peter Behrens
The Winnetou novels, penned by German author Karl May, were 19th century bestsellers about a Native American hero. They were also Albert Einstein, Fritz Lang and Adolph Hitler's favourite books. ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 6:00 PM Salle Godin (Hôtel 10) -
LA BIBLE ET LA LITTÉRATURE, SI PROCHES SI LOINTAINES
Marcus Malte, Marie Pascale Huglo, Guy Bonneau
Avec les textes de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, la Bible est souvent considérée comme le creuset de la littérature occidentale. Est-ce encore vrai? Que doivent les romanciers contemporains ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 1:00 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
BRIDGING THE DIASPORA DIVIDE: JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN PLAYWRIGHTS COME TOGETHER IN GROUNDBREAKING ANTHOLOGY
Stephen Orlov, Samah Sabawi, Jim Burke
Playwrights Stephen Orlov and Samah Sabawi discuss their creative process in editing Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, the first English-language anthology in any genre ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 1:30 PM Salle Godin (Hôtel 10) -
CHINA NOW: BARRELING INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
Xue Yiwei, Yan Liang, Michèle Plomer, Alexandre Trudeau
Through the novel, the short story and a nonfiction account, Michèle Plomer (Étincelle, Dragonville), Xue Yiwei (Shenzheners) and Alexandre Trudeau (Barbarian Lost) seek to understand this ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 8:30 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
CROSSING THE DIVIDE: AUTHORS WHO TRANSLATE
Nantali Indongo, Daniel Grenier, Claire Holden Rothman, Catherine Leroux, Dimitri Nasrallah
Four authors talk about what it's like to sit in the translator's seat, and how they tread the fine line between the two crafts.
Thursday Apr. 27 2017 2:30 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
CULTURE, KINSHIP AND THE WRITTEN WORD
Francisco Goldman, David Treuer, Shelley Pomerance
Francisco Goldman (Say Her Name), of Guatemalan-Catholic and Jewish-American parentage, and David Treuer (The Translation of Dr. Apelles, Prudence), whose background is Ojibwe and Jewish, discuss ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 12:30 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
DE VILLE-MARIE À MONTRÉAL, QUE RESTE-T-IL DES FONDEMENTS MYSTIQUES DE LA VILLE?
Monique Proulx, Dominique Deslandres, Marie-Andrée Lamontagne
C'est dans tous les manuels, mais on l'oublie: la fondation de Ville-Marie fut d'abord une entreprise mystique, dictée par la foi religieuse en ces temps de Contre-Réforme. Qu'est-il resté de la ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 2:00 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
A DECADE IN THE DARK: 2008-2017 - ANNULÉ
For ten years, writers and the public have struggled to make sense of the 2008 crash and its aftermath, the Great Recession. Was this a crime or a catastrophe? A market or government failure?
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DIS-MOI DE QUOI TU AS PEUR, ET JE TE DIRAI QUI TU LIS ! SUR LES ENJEUX LGBTQ
Denis-Martin Chabot, Chantal Brunette, Luc Mercure, Samuel Champagne
La peur, mère de toutes les émotions. Elle motive ou elle paralyse. Elle s'exprime selon les cultures et les époques, mais elle demeure universelle et intemporelle. Une discussion entre quatre ...
Sunday Apr. 30 2017 1:00 PM Salle Godin (Hôtel 10) -
DOES A BIOGRAPHY HAVE THE LAST WORD?
Anne Lagacé Dowson, Marc Raboy, Rosemary Sullivan, Laurent Seksik
Three biographers, Rosemary Sullivan (Stalin's Daughter, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart/A Life), Marc Raboy (Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World), and Laurent Seksik (Les derniers jours de Stefan ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 2:00 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
ÉCRIRE, CRÉER DANS LES TEMPS TROUBLÉS
Anne Pasquier, Marcello Fois, Marc Bergère, Marta Carraro, Catherine Hermary-Vieille, Marie Costa
Toutes les époques ont eu leur lot de troubles. Paradoxalement, elles ont parfois aussi favorisé l'épanouissement de la littérature et des arts. Qu'en est-il de la nôtre?
Sunday Apr. 30 2017 11:00 AM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
EL ESPAÑOL, SÍ, ¿PERO CUÁL?
Diego Medina Creimer, Stephen Henighan, Marie Costa
Dos traductores experimentados en la traducción entre el español y otros idiomas (inglés, francés y catalán) hablan del desafío que representa la enorme variedad del español en el mundo ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 2:30 PM Librairie Las Américas -
FEMINICIDIO NO MORE
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Francisco Goldman, Rosemary Sullivan, Paulina Abarca Cantin, Agustina Isidori, Ingrid Bejerman
From #stolensisters in Canada to #niunamenos in Argentina, a conversation about violence against women in the 21st century, enveloped by the work of the Mexican artist Teresa Margolles now on ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 4:00 PM Musée d'art contemporain -
LE FÉMINISME – UN PASSAGE OBLIGÉ ?
Laura T. Iléa, Houria Bouteldja, Chantal Maillé, Naïma Hamrouni
Le féminisme a-t-il valeur universelle? Est-il un passage obligé conduisant à la libération des femmes ? Ne pourrait-il pas aussi être une importation de l'Occident? Autant de questions ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 4:00 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
LA FOLIE À L’OPÉRA
Chantal Lambert, Danielle Ros, Georges L'Espérance, Pierre Vachon
Depuis sa naissance, l'opéra chante la folie et enchante par sa folie. Scènes de folie, démences de personnages, musiques excessives, objet d'études psychologiques voire même pathologie de la ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 4:00 PM Salle Godin (Hôtel 10) -
GAMES AND LITERATURE : THE INFINITE ALPHABET
David Calvo, Saleema Webster, Jill Murray
To consider the place of the word in game design, and the place of writing in a game. To explore the dialogue between open-world experience and narrative vision. From the practice of video game ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 4:00 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
GHOSTWRITERS & COMPANY: ALL STORY, NO GLORY
Shawn Apel, Julie Barlow, Bryan Demchinsky, Gina Roitman
A good writer gets recognition and their name on the book cover. A good ghostwriter doesn't. Julie Barlow, Bryan Demchinsky and Gina Roitman talk about the challenges and ethics of writing in the ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 11:00 AM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
IS THE MARRIAGE OF LITERATURE AND RELIGION A GOOD ONE?
Gorazd Kocijancic, Amir Or, Josip Novakovich, Ariela Freedman, Joseph Rosen
Is it possible to write about God without being subject to ridicule? And how can writers address the topics of God and religion without proselytizing?
Friday Apr. 28 2017 8:30 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
IS WWII A LIMITLESS SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR WRITERS?
David Treuer, Peter Behrens, Laura Dunbar, Douglas Babington
Douglas Babington (Bivouac Prayers), Peter Behrens (Carry Me) and David Treuer (Prudence) explore the topic of World War II in fiction, including the letters and memories that inspired their novels. ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 2:30 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
L’IMAGINAIRE URBAIN DANS LA LITTÉRATURE LATINO-CANADIENNE
Alejandro Saravia, Gerardo Ferro Rojas, Ingrid Bejerman, Olga Colmenares
Les Américains, du Nord comme du Sud, portent dans leur inconscient collectif l'obsession de la ville. Les auteurs latino-canadiens suivent cette tradition de redéfinir les limites urbaines à ...
Sunday Apr. 30 2017 3:00 PM Librairie Las Américas -
LATIN AMERICA PACKAGED IN ENGLISH
Mary Soderstrom, Adriana Brasileiro, Stephen Henighan, Ingrid Bejerman, Francisco Toro
Three journalists, a columnist, and a historian share their experience of doing reportage, non-fiction and op-ed writing about Latin America for a readership in English.
Thursday Apr. 27 2017 2:00 PM Librairie Las Américas -
LIEUX DE NAISSANCE, USAGES ET COULEURS DU FRANÇAIS
Blaise Ndala, Marcus Malte, Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, Marie-Christine Boyer, Elitza Gueorguieva
Les deux primo-romancières ayant eu la faveur des clubs de lecture québécois, Marie-Christine Boyer (Farö) et Elitza Gueorguieva (Les cosmonautes ne font que passer), dialoguent avec le ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 11:00 AM Maison des écrivains (UNEQ) -
MONTREAL WRITERS ON THE (DIGITAL) MAP
Dimitri Nasrallah, Martine Delvaux, Ceri Morgan, Christopher DiRaddo
UK critic and scholar Ceri Morgan and Montreal authors talk about recent fiction set in Montreal and about a digital map project that features readings / audio recordings in which this city plays a ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 6:30 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
MONTREAL: ONCE AND FUTURE CITY OF REFUGE
Jaggi Singh, Ehab Lotayef, Cora Siré, Su Sokol, Caroline Vu
Writers from the world over—including the U.S—have found sanctuary in Montreal, and their fiction reflects this. Writers Ehab Lotayef (Crossing Gibraltar, To Love a Palestinian Woman), Cora ...
Thursday Apr. 27 2017 3:30 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
THE PAST INSIDE THE PRESENT: QUEER WRITERS CONTEMPLATE THE FUTURE
Nick Comilla, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Kai Cheng Thom, Christopher DiRaddo
Three LGBTQ writers reflect on the role that the past plays in their work, looking at our origin stories through the prism of the present and addressing the concerns of an uncertain future.
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 10:00 AM Salle Godin (Hôtel 10) -
POWERFUL WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL CULTURES: IS MATRIARCHY A THING OF THE PAST?
Imbolo Mbue, Samah Sabawi, Anne Lagacé Dowson, Anita Desai
Writers Anita Desai (Clear Light of Day, Fasting, Feasting), Imbolo Mbue (Behold the Dreamers), and Samah Sabawi (I Remember My Name) discuss their cultures of origin, their fiction and their female ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 5:30 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
SALVANDO LAS DISTANCIAS
Alejandro Saravia, Diego Medina Creimer, Flavia Garcia
Los dos codirectores de The Apostles Review hablan del enfoque de la revista y de su papel en el desarrollo de una literatura canadiense en español, que incluye escritores de todas partes del ...
Thursday Apr. 27 2017 5:00 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
TUER AU NOM DE DIEU
Alain Gignac, Luc Chartrand, Mélanie Loisel, Catherine Hermary-Vieille
Les religions sont-elles les grandes absentes des guerres de religion ou des conflits religieux? Que répond la littérature de fiction?
Friday Apr. 28 2017 5:30 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
UN CONCEPT DÉRANGEANT: L’AMOUR RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE
Laura T. Iléa, Houria Bouteldja, Joël Des Rosiers, Martine Desjardins
Acte subversif, facteur de changement social ou ensemble de revendications politiques qui traduisent le malaise identitaire des sociétés ? Discussion autour du concept d'«amour ...
Thursday Apr. 27 2017 7:30 PM Librairie Gallimard -
UNE SOCIÉTÉ PEUT-ELLE VRAIMENT FAIRE LA PAIX AVEC SON PASSÉ ?
Marcello Fois, Marc Bergère, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Fabien Deglise, Marta Carraro
Histoire collective ou individuelle, il est des moments où le passé ne passe pas. Comment alors hante-t-il le présent? Le prix d'entrée donne également accès à l'exposition Porter son ...
Friday Apr. 28 2017 4:00 PM Musée McCord -
VENEZUELA FROM HERE
Ingrid Bejerman, Olga Colmenares, Francisco Toro, Rafael Osio Cabrices
Four Montreal-based Venezuelan writers discuss the challenges of writing about their country from abroad.
Friday Apr. 28 2017 5:30 PM Librairie Las Américas -
WHAT DOES MEMORY MEAN TO A WRITER FROM CENTRAL EUROPE?
Drago Jancar, Aleš Šteger, Oana Avasilichioaei, Josip Novakovich
A conversation with Slovenian authors Drago Jancar (The Tree with No Name, I Saw Her That Night) and Aleš Šteger (The Book of Things) and writer Josip Novakovich (Ex-Yu, Tumbleweed), a Croatian in ...
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 5:00 PM Salle Jardin (Hôtel 10) -
WHAT IS HOME?
Drago Jancar, Amir Or, Anita Desai, Jeanette Kelly
American-Indian writer Anita Desai (Clear Light of Day, Fasting, Feasting), Slovenian author Drago Jan?ar (The Tree with No Name, I Saw Her That Night) and Israeli poet Amir Or (Miracle, Dia>Logos) ...
Sunday Apr. 30 2017 11:00 AM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10) -
WRITER'S PERSPECTIVE: WHITHER THE USA?
Imbolo Mbue, Francisco Goldman, David Treuer, Eleanor Wachtel
Francisco Goldman (Say Her Name), Imbolo Mbue (Behold the Dreamers) and David Treuer (Prudence) talk about living and writing in the USA today.
Saturday Apr. 29 2017 8:00 PM Salle St-Laurent (Hôtel 10)
