This episode features novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Peter Behrens, author of the GG Award winning The Law of Dreams. Topics discussed include his latest novel, The O’Briens as well as arriving in Calgary for the first time in the back of a pick-up truck full of cowboys.
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CJSW 90.9FM and WordFest present five interviews with past Governor General’s Literary Award winners. Featuring discussions with authors Guy Vanderhaeghe, Miriam Toews, Arthur Slade, Dany Laferrière and Peter Behrens. Also including Canada’s 26th Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. The interviews launch November 14th, 2011. For more information of WordFest’s year-round literary programming please visit wordfest.com.
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Peter Behrens (November 18, 2011)
This episode features novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Peter Behrens, author of the GG Award winning "The Law of Dreams". Topics discussed include his latest novel, "The O'Briens" as well as arriving in Calgary for the first time in the back of a pick-up truck full of cowboys.
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The GG Podcast – Peter Behrens
November 18th, 2011The GG Podcast – Dany Laferrière
November 17th, 2011Auteur de Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer, L’énigme du retour et Je suis fou de Vava (Prix du Gouverneur général: meilleur texte pour la jeunesse 2006).
The GG Podcast – Arthur Slade
November 16th, 2011Novelist and comics writer Arthur Slade discusses his style of writing as well as his GG Award for Children’s Literature.
The GG Podcast – Miriam Toews
November 15th, 2011Miriam Toews is the GG Award winning author of A Complicated Kindness. Her latest novel is entitled Irma Voth. She spoke with CJSW’s Paul Kennett about her career as a writer as well as the impact of winning a GG Award.
The GG Podcast – Guy Vanderhaeghe
November 14th, 2011Saskatchewan born author Guy Vanderhaeghe has won two GG Literary Awards for Fiction first for Man Descending and again for The Englishman’s Boy. In this episode we discuss his awards as well as his latest novel, A Good Man.
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