Southern Leg author line-up
Posted by Liesl Jauk
Meet these five finalists and get personally signed books for yourself, friends or family at free public events in Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna and Oliver from April 20-24, 2008. While On Tour, our authors will also visit select local schools, leaving behind signed copies of their books for the school libraries.
- Ruth Campbell and Ron Smith Elf the Eagle (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize)
- Don Gayton Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
(Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize) - Claire Mulligan The Reckoning of Boston Jim (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
- Arleen Paré Paper Trail (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
Learn about these books and the rest of the shortlisted titles, too.
Don Gayton
Apr 13, 2008 at 06:47 PM
We’ll be travelling through my Southern Interior heartland, which manages to be sublime and banal at the same time. There are certain views of the southern Okanagan valley that remind one that the glaciers are not long gone. Endangered spadefoot toads compete for habitat with golf course/condo developers. The contemporary authors who have written about or commented on the Southern Interior are few, and far between. Sheila Watson, George Ryga, Jeannette Armstrong, Harold Rhenisch, James Marshall, Nancy Holmes. Who am I missing? I think this spectacular region is best described as a blank slate, awaiting authors who can make it resonate.