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Toronto Public Library to Feature Three Shortlisted Giller Authors
Readings complement library’s annual Guess the Giller Contest
Toronto (Wednesday, October 7, 2009) - Toronto Public Library’s aptly named author series, The eh List features three of the five recently announced short listed Giller Prize authors at library branches across the city. The eh List Author Series provides an opportunity to hear, meet and read these and other top Canadian writers, throughout the fall, for free.
Linden MacIntyre (The Bishop’s Man) reads at Barbara Frum Branch (20 Covington Road) on October 14 at 7 p.m.
Colin McAdam (Fall) appears at North York Central Library (5120 Yonge Street) on October 28 at 7 p.m., and again at Richview Branch (1806 Islington Avenue) on October 29 at 2 p.m.
Kim Echlin (The Disappeared), who opened The eh List series in September, reads at the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge Street) November 26 at 7 p.m.
Other Eh List Authors visiting the library this fall include: Martha Baillie, Neil Bissoondath, Ian Brown, Denise Chong, Wayson Choy, Adrienne Clarkson, Mary Lou Finlay, Lisa Gabriele, Anne Giardini, Catherine Gildiner. Rawi Hage, Mark Kingwell, Patrick Lane, Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy, Ken McGoogan, Lisa Moore, A.F. Moritz, Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant, Lily Portiz Miller, Robert Rotenberg, Jane Urquahrt, and Michael Wex.
Anyone can guess who will win this year’s coveted Scotiabank Giller Literary Prize by entering Toronto Public Library’s Guess the Giller Contest, running in select branches and on the library website at torontopubliclibrary.ca. The contest begins Tuesday, October 13 and gives entrants a chance to win sets of all the short-listed titles.
The 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists are:
o Kim Echlin for The Disappeared
o Annabel Lyon for her novel The Golden Mean
o Linden MacIntyre for The Bishop’s Man
o Colin McAdam for Fall
o Anne Michaels for The Winter Vault
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