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At one of our most popular Incite events yet, Yann Martel and Claudia Casper discussed their new novels along with a host of other topics. Both novels deal with hope and recovering from trauma, and, while they are set in very different location
“Every now and then,” wrote A.S. Byatt, “a writer changes the whole map of literature inside my head.” The work of Icelandic writer Sjón, Byatt continues, “is unlike anything I had read.” When Vancouver Writers Fest Artistic Director Hal Wake r
While his earlier novels were well received in his native Norway, it was the 2009 publication of My Struggle, the first of six autobiographical novels, that made Karl Ove Knausgaard successful— and controversial. The greatest ever publishing ph
In his new novel, Lebanese-American writer Rabih Alameddine paints a portrait of a passionate, introverted woman whose mind ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut with all its beauty and horror. Michael Crummey, intimately tied to
Writing in the risk zone of the unconventional often comes with a personal cost—and sometimes results in a great reward. Charles Foran, whose biography of Mordecai Richler won several major awards, rejects convention with his new novel, told in
It’s a hallmark of the Writers Fest to put intelligent, thoughtful, articulate authors on stage together and watch as magic happens. That's exactly what happened in this 2014 Festival event, when Vancouver novelist Annabel Lyon talked to Irish
A Canadian author, actor, playwright and broadcaster whose internationally bestselling and prizewinning novels have been translated into almost 20 languages, Ann-Marie MacDonald has it seems, succeeded at everything she turns her hand to. Adult
These three Americans—all under 40—are rewriting the cultural persona of America for the world to meet anew. Joshua Ferris’ debut novel has been published in 25 languages and his third novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, “captures what it is
Tim Winton is one of the pre-eminent Australian novelists of his generation. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice and won the Miles Franklin Award four times, and his books have been published in 18 languages. Cloudstreet, arg
If you’ve wondered how Miriam Toews’ characters can range from the tough-talking, funny, sarcastic Naomi in A Complicated Kindness to the freedom- yearning Irma Voth to the despondent, suicidal Elfrieda in her latest novel, All My Puny Sorrows,
Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian, a reflection on the Native experience, was a sensation in 2012. It won the RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Hila
An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and master prose stylist, David Mitchell talks to Hal Wake, the Vancouver Writers Fest's Artistic Director, and reads from his new novel, The Bone Clocks.Mitchell returns t
Hard to believe yet true: not until October 24, 2013, at the Vancouver Writers Fest, had Canada’s pre-eminent playwrights Tomson Highway and Michel Tremblay appeared together onstage. Interviewed by the inestimable Bill Richardson, these llustr
At Incite on March 28, 2014, Margaret MacMillian appeared before a full-house of 300 to talk about her book The War that Ended Peace, a riveting account of the events leading up to The Great War, a war that “followed a period of sustained peace
Eleanor (Ellie) Catton’s novel The Luminaries, which won the man Booker Prize and the Governor-General’s Award for Fiction, combines a sophisticated and intricate structure, with a large cast of vivid characters and an engrossing mysterious sto
Michael Chabon grew up in the 1960s during the heyday of pop art and in a home with a father who was as passionate about high art as he was low art. This had a strong influence on Chabon, whose childhood explorations of both comic book tropes a
First novels are a hold-your-breath moment for writers. Meet four who are riding the wave of critical acclaim, publishing first novels after many years of teaching writing and publishing in other print forms. Pletzinger’s novel, in translation
Canada is populated largely by immigrants, all with stories that carry shadows of what they’ve left behind and how they’ve been welcomed to their new land. In his novel, The O’Briens, Peter Behrens transports, from Ireland to Canada, the family
War and conflict heighten human emotion, action and thought. There’s a desperate awareness that life may be even shorter than expected and the future irrevocably changed. When history crashes into personal lives and loves during wartime, noveli
When a writer releases a volume called Collected Stories, 1955–2010, you know that this is a writer with “legs,” who has certainly stood the test of time. When an author who has published 20 books of fiction and non-fiction releases his first c
One of Canada’s leading biographers and historians tackles the Klondike Gold Rush in a new and refreshing way, following six colourful figures in a world gone mad for wealth. The six—a Jesuit priest, a female entrepreneur, legendary Mountie Sam
Mordecai Richler’s appearances at the Writers Festival were legendary. And now, Charles Foran, with this definitive, detailed and intimate life story of Richler – the lion of Canadian literature – comes to life again. Foran, who had access to f
Three authors—who could be labelled “Chinese Canadian” if you were keen to apply labels—talk about the tension between avoiding your heritage and embracing your heritage. Ling Zhang, who has lived in Canada for 25 years, published a saga chroni
In 2007, as a response to what he perceived to be the Canadian government’s meager support of the arts, Yann Martel began a four-year project to send Prime Minister Harper a book every two weeks. These books would be inscribed by Martel and acc
“First I’ll tell you about the robbery our parents committed, then about the murders that happened later.” So goes the first lines of Richard Ford’s Canada, a haunting and visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile human
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