Joanna Skibsrud, Dany Laferriére, Anne Fortier still to come
TORONTO (Thursday, May 12, 2011) – Toronto Public Library’s popular eh List program is entering its final weeks of the Spring 2011 series with not to miss authors like Giller Prize winner Joanna Skibsrud, the “bad boy” himself Peter Robinson and fresh off a Parisian tour Dany Laferriére.
“The eh List series has been extremely successful at drawing an audience,” said programming manager Tina Srebotnjak. “We offer the series in 7 branches across the city, and we’ve found that people really love to meet and talk to the Canadian writers everyone’s reading.”
Events, which are all free, are being held at a variety of Toronto Public Library branches across the city. At North York Central Library, Anne Fortier, author of the blockbuster novel Juliet, will appear on May 18, 7:00 pm, and 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud is scheduled May 28, 2:00 pm to discuss her novel The Sentimentalists.
Crime novelist Peter Robinson, who has released the 19th installment of the award-winning Inspector Banks series, Bad Boys, will be at the Toronto Reference Library on May 26, 12:30 pm, and again at S. Walter Stewart Branch on May 25, 7:00 pm.
Well known Quebec author, Dany Laferriére, (How to Make Love to Negro Without Getting Tired) will be talking about his new novel, I am a Japanese Writer. He’ll be joined at that event with his English-language translator David Homel. Homel is also scheduled to present his successful novel Midway at Runnymede Branch on May 18, 7:00 pm, and Taylor Memorial Branch May 17, 7:00 pm. Both authors will also appear at Yorkville Branch on May 19, 7:00 pm for a program in French.
Anne Fortier will make a second appearance at Barbara Frum Branch on May 19, 7:00 pm. On the same date and time, author of Moon Over Marrakech, Nazneen Sheikh, will make an appearance at Northern District Branch. For more information, visit Toronto Public Library website www.torontopulbiclibrary.ca/ehlist
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