Open Text Reading Series as Part of The Capilano Review's Narrative Issue Launch
Ashok Mathur, Sina Queyras and Gail Scott
Capilano University 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver
Ashok Mathur
Thursday, February 14
11:30 – 1 pm
LB321
Ashok Mathur: Born in Bhopal, India, Ashok Mathur is the author of the novels, Once upon an Elephant (Arsenal Pulp, 1998) and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (Arsenal Pulp, 2001) and, most recently, A Little Distillery in Nowgong (Arsenal Pulp, 2009), a fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, that traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to present day. Formerly of Calgary, he is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC.
Sina Queyras
Thursday, February 14
2:30 pm – 4pm
MA101
Sina Queyras is the author most recently of Autobiography of Childhood (Coach House 2011). Her collection of poetry, Expressway (Coach House 2009) was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Lemon Hound (Coach House 2006) won a Lambda Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction has appeared in journals internationally including The London Review, Poetry, Fence, and Geist and Siecle 21. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books. She has taught creative writing at Rutgers, Haverford and Concordia University in Montreal where she currently resides.
Gail Scott
Friday, February 15
4 pm – 5 pm
LB322
Gail Scott’s new novel, The Obituary (Coach House, 2010), finalist for the 2011 Grand prix du livre de Montréal (Montréal Book Prize), is a ghost story whose fractalled narrator is haunted by the voices of Indigenous ancestors, as well as by generations of people passing below her Montréal triplex window. Other novels are My Paris (Mercury, 1999; Dalkey Archive, 2003), about a sad diarist in conversation with Gertrude Stein and Walter Benjamin in late-millennial Paris, Main Brides (Coach House, 1993) and Heroine (Coach House, 1987). Spare Parts Plus 2 (Coach House, 2002), is a collection of stories and manifestos. She is the author of the essay collection Spaces Like Stairs (Women’s Press, 1989) and, with Nicole Brossard et al, la théorie, un dimanche (Remue-ménage, 1988). The new narrative anthology Biting The Error (Coach House 2004), edited with Bob Gluck, Camille Roy, and Mary Berger, was shortlisted for a Lambda award. Her play Werther, Alive on the Radio, was performed by Poets Theatre in San Francisco in January. Scott's translation of Michael Delisle's Le Déasarroi du matelot was shortlisted for the Governor General's award in translation [2001]. She is co-founder of the critical French-language journal Spirale (Montréal) and Tessera. She teaches Creative Writing at Université de Montréal.
Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for this reading. We would also like to thank Capilano University and Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Other Narrative Events:
TCR will launch our winter narrative issue on February 15
With readings by Gail Scott, Sina Queyras, Meredith Quartermain, Ashok Mathur, Bhanu Kapil, and Reg Johanson!
Friday, February 15, 2013
8:00pm (doors 7:30)
1965 Main Street (at E. 4th)
Vancouver
$5 at door
See you there!
There will also be an afternoon talk and panel discussion in celebration of the newly launched narrative issue at Capilano University.
TALK + PANEL: Bhanu Kapil, “What is Ban? [A short talk on narrative and diaspora]” with panel respondents Gail Scott, Ashok Mathur, and Alex Leslie
February 15, 2:30pm
Capilano University Library room 322
North Vancouver
Co-sponsored by the Liberal Studies BA
Free and open to the public
