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SUMMARY:Bachtyar Ali at the Toronto International Festival of Authors with Jalamuddin Aram
DESCRIPTION:Bachtyar Ali\, author of The Last Pomegranate Tree\, will speak with documentary filmmaker and writer Jamaluddin Aram in a conversation moderated by Ann Yu-Kying Choi this September at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Translator Kareem Abdulrahman will serve as interpreter during this conversation. \nAli’s The Last Pomegranate Tree follows one man’s desperate quest to reconnect with his only son in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s rule; in Aram’s Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday\, a cast of memorable characters struggle to find their footing as civil war breaks out in Kabul\, Afghanistan. \nFrom different moments in time and history\, both novels explore the impact of war on ordinary people and attempt to make sense of these moments marked by atrocity. \nYou can register for this event on TIFA’s website. \n \nBachtyar Ali was born in 1966 in Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq. In 1983\, he was injured during a student protest against Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party\, and the experience inspired him to focus on writing. He received his first prize that year\, for his poem “Nishtiman” (“Homeland”). After the revolt of 1991\, writers and intellectuals in the Kurdish region of Iraq experienced a surge of creative autonomy. In the intervening years Ali has written over 40 books of fiction\, poetry\, and criticism\, including 12 novels. He has been translated into over seven languages\, a renown very few authors writing in the Kurdish language enjoy. In 2017\, he was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize. He is also the recipient of the Sherko Bekas Literature Prize and the HARDI Literature Prize\, and in 2005\, the Ministry of Culture of Iraqi Kurdistan elected the novel Shari Mosiqare Spiyekan (The City of the Musicians in White) as the best book of the year. \nJamaluddin Aram is a documentary filmmaker\, producer\, and writer from Kabul\, Afghanistan. His works have appeared in Numero Cinq\, The Write Launch and Cagibi literary magazine among others. His short story “This Hard Easy Life” was a finalist for RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2020. He was mentored by Michael Christie for the Writers’ Trust of Canada Mentorship program for his book Marchoba\, now titled Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday. Jamaluddin has a bachelor’s degree in English and history from Union College in Schenectady\, New York. He lives in Toronto. \nOriginally from South Korea\, Ann Yu-Kying Choi immigrated to Canada in 1975. Her debut novel\, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety\, was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. The story\, set in the 1980s\, was inspired by her experiences working in her family-run variety store. \nKareem Abdulrahman is a translator and Kurdish affairs analyst. From 2006 to 2014\, he worked as a Kurdish media and political analyst for the BBC\, where translation was part of his job. Abdulrahman translated Bachtyar Ali’s I Stared at the Night of the City into English (UK; Periscope; 2016)\, making it the first Kurdish novel to be translated into English. \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/bachtyar-ali-at-the-toronto-international-festival-of-authors/
LOCATION:Toronto International Festival of Authors\, 235 Queens Quay W\, Toronto\, ON\, M5J 2G8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:The Last Pomegranate Tree Tour
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SUMMARY:Ida Jessen in Conversation with Anne Michaels at Queen Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Queen Books in Toronto for a conversation between Danish author Ida Jessen and Toronto’s Fifth Poet Laureate\, Anne Michaels\, a satellite event of the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Jessen will present and read from her new novel: A Change of Time.  \nReserve your (free) ticket here! \nIda Jessen is widely considered to be the master of psychological realism in contemporary Danish fiction. Having made her debut with the short-story collection Under Sten (Under Stone) in 1989\, Jessen’s breakthrough came with the trilogy: Den der lyver (The One Who’s Lying; 2011)\, Det første jeg tænker (The First Thing I Think Of; 2006)\, and Børnene (The Children; 2009). The latter earned her the Booksellers Prize\, the Golden Laurel and a nomination for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her short story collection\, Postkort til Annie (Postcard to Annie; 2013) earned her another nomination for the Nordic Council Prize. Jessen was recently awarded the 2017 Critics’ Choice Award (April 2018) for The Anagrams of Doctor Bagge. She is also a recipient of the Lifetime Award from the Danish Arts Foundation. \n  \nAnne Michaels is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards\, including the Orange Prize\, the Guardian Fiction Prize\, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honours she has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship\, and has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize (twice)\, the Governor-General’s Award\, the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and longlisted for the IMPAC Award (twice). Her novel FUGITIVE PIECES was adapted as a feature film. She was honoured to be appointed Toronto’s Poet Laureate. Her most recent books include ALL WE SAW\, INFINITE GRADATION\, and RAILTRACKS (co-written with John Berger).”
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/ida-jessen-at-queen-books/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, ON\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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