If you enjoy reading, then this program will interest you immensely. It is called THRiVE Reads…BC Authors. In collaboration with TRU Creative Writing department, we will be hosting THRiVE Reads, which is a celebration of BC Authors. Similar to CBC’s Canada Reads, we have had voting open for the last two months. Look below and find our top 6 choices. Stay tuned for our schedule and congratulations to all our winners! Location: THRiVE Expo at TRU Campus Activity Centre 1. Certainty (Madeleine Thien) 2. Eating Dirt (Charlotte Gill) 3. Sisters of Grass (Theresa Kishkan) 4. The Cellist of Sarajevo (Stephen Galloway) 5. The Sky is Falling (Caroline Adderson) 6. Turtle Valley (Gail Anderson-Dargatz) 1. Madeleine Thien, Certainty Madeleine Thien’s first book, Simple Recipes (2001) received the City of Vancouver Book Award, the VanCity Book Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Commonwealth First Book Prize. Her first novel, Certainty (2006) won the Amazon Books in Canada First Novel Award and was published internationally and translated into 16 languages. In 2001 Thien was named the most promising Canadian writer under the age of 30. Her most recent novel, Dogs at the Perimeter (2011), was a finalist for the prestigious Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and has been translated into eight languages. Madeliene Thien was born and raised in Vancouver. Certainty (McClelland and Stewart, 2006), Madeleine Thien’s highly-acclaimed debut novel, tells the stories of Gail Lim, a Vancouver radio producer, her father Matthew Lim, who grew up in Japan-occupied Malaysia, and other characters through a series of literary doorways: each character’s story must be discovered and illuminated by those of the people in his or her past. Memory, loss, and the legacies of the Second World War for children of immigrants and Canadians in general weave a complex and visually haunting novel. See more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Thien. 2. Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt Charlotte Gill is a Vancouver writer and former professional tree planter who was inspired to write her memoir, Eating Dirt, by the “weird, brilliant, fascinating people” she met, as well as her encounters with the wild, during her 17 years of planting trees. Her memoir has been nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize, the Charles Taylor Prize, and two B.C. Book Prizes. It was the winner of the 2012 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Her previous book, Ladykiller, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Eating Dirt (Greystone Books, 2011) has been described as “an extended postcard from the cut blocks – a vivid portrayal of one woman’s life planting trees.” Gill’s memoir covers a year in the grueling, dirty, big and bear-infested world of remote wilderness camps; it also explores the interconnected stories of the forests and the intimate lives of trees. Gill’s first-hand knowledge, her literary style, and her exceptional eye for detail provide a gripping read. See more at charlottegill. 3. Theresa Kishkan, Sisters of Grass Theresa Kishkan who lives on the Sechelt Peninsula, has published 10 books, including three volumes of poetry, three novels, two collections of essays, and a memoir, Mnemonic: A Book of Trees. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Relit Award, the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction, and the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-fiction. Sisters of Grass (Goose Lane Editions, 2000) is part mystery, part love story, part historical fiction. Through the discoveries of a present-day researcher into textiles, it tells the story of Margaret Stuart, a Nicola Valley woman of the late nineteenth century. Margaret, born of a Native mother and Scottish-American father, learns photography and love from a visiting Columbia University scholar, and has a near run-in with the infamous MacLean Gang. Kishkan’s evocative, poetic language unfolds a journey not only into the past, but also into the landscape of the Nicola Valley. See more at theresakishkan. 4. Stephen Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo Stephen Galloway was raised in Kamloops, B.C. and attended the University College of the Cariboo before studying creative writing at UBC. His novels have been nominated and shortlisted for the Amazon Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the Evergreen Award, the Geroge Ryga Award, and the Borders Original Voices Award. They have been translated into over 15 languages and published in 30 countries. The Cellist of Sarajevo (Knopf, 2008) is based on the true story of a cellist who played in the streets for twenty-two days during the siege of Sarajevo, 1992-1995. Like Galloway’s previous novels, Finnie Walsh and Ascension, it is action-based, following characters who risk their lives and grapple with urgent dilemmas against the backdrop of contemporary war. It’s a novel that manages to be both gripping in its story and deeply evocative in its voice and images. See more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Galloway. 5. Caroline Adderson, The Sky is Falling Caroline Adderson’s work has received numerous prize nominations, including the the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her books have also won two Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes and three CBC Literary Awards. Adderson also received the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement, in 2006. She is the author of three novels: A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice, and The Sky is Falling, as well as two collections of short stories: Bad Imaginings and Pleased to Meet You. Her numerous books for young readers include the Jasper John Dooley series. The Sky is Falling (Thomas Allen, 2010) takes its narrator, Jane – and us – back to 1984 and a shared house in Kitsilano, where, as a young UBC student, Jane lives and becomes involved with a group of radical, idealistic, non-violent activists against a backdrop of political and environmental anxiety. While Jane studies the passions of Russian literature and finds first love, the group’s activities escalate, ending in violence and severe punishment for Jane’s friend. See more at carolineadderson and carolineaddersonkids. 6. Gail Anderson-Dargatz, In Turtle Valley Gail Anderson-Dargatz, born in Salmon Arm, B.C., is most well-known for her 1996 novel of magic realism, The Cure for Death by Lightning, a national and international best-seller published in dozens of translations. Anderson-Dargatz’s subsequent novels, A Recipe for Bees, A Rhinestone Button, and Turtle Valley have also received numerous prizes and nominations, and were national bestsellers. In Turtle Valley (Knopf, 2007), a novel set in the beautiful and secluded area near Salmon Arm, B.C., a woman at the end of a marriage damaged by mental illness sorts through family belongings and finds clues to a family mystery and parallels between her grandmother’s and her own lives against the imminent threats of a forest fire and a ten-minute evacuation notice. The rekindling of an old friendship gives the protagonist new possibilities. Anderson-Dargatz’s lush description and lyrical prose are a counterpoint to the page-turning urgency of the story. See more at gailanderson.ca. ***the THRiVE reads Expo will be going from 9am -3pm Saturday and Sunday***
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