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International Festival of Authors

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October 18 to 28, Harbourfront Centre

Venues: Brigantine Room (BRG), Lakeside Terrace (LST) and Studio Theatre (SDT), 235 Queen’s Quay West Premiere Dance Theatre (PDT), 207 Queen’s Quay West.

Tributes (T), Readings (R), Dialogues (D) $15.50, stu/srs $14, mbrs $13 Public lives (P) $10, stu/srs $9, mbrs $8.50 973-4000 www.readings.org

Thursday, October 19 Candace Bushnell w/ Ian Brown (5 pm/D/BRG) Andrea De Carlo w/ Antonio D’Alfonso (5 pm/D/PDT) Marcela Serrano w/ Donna Bailey Nurse (5 pm/D/LST) René Vásquez Díaz w/ Lesley Kreuger (7 pm/D/LST) Mark Anthony Jarman, David Adams Richards, Josef Skvorecky (8 pm/R/BRG) Candace Bushnell, Marcela Serrano, Ali Smith (8 pm/R/PDT).

Friday, October 20 Mark Anthony Jarman w/ Kevin Connolly (5 pm/D/BRG), Marcel Möring w/ Marc Glassman (5 pm/D/PDT) Hikaru Okuizumi w/ Ted Goossen (5 pm/D/LST) Philip Levine w/ Buzz Hargrove (7 pm/D/BRG) David Helwig, Daniel Poliquin, Francine Prose (8 pm/R/BRG) Andrea De Carlo, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Jane Urquhart (8 pm/R/PDT) Mordecai Richler w/ Daniel Richler (9 pm/D/LST).

Saturday, October 21 Jane Urquhart w/ Anne Michaels (noon/D/PDT) Amitav Ghosh w/ Paul William Roberts (noon/D/LST) Bei Dao w/ Michael Szonyi (1 pm/D/BRG) Anita Desai w/ Marion Botsford Fraser (2 pm/D/PDT) David Leavitt w/ Michael Winter (3 pm/D/ BRG) Peter Davison w/ Ellen Seligman (4 pm/D/LST) Francine Prose w/ Stephen Smith (5 pm/D/BRG) Daniel Poliquin w/ Paul Savoie (7 pm/D/LST) Bei Dao, Amitav Ghosh, Philip Levine (8 pm/R/BRG) Marcel Möring, Mordecai Richler, Peter Schneider (8 pm/R/PDT).

Sunday, October 22 Maeve Binchy w/ Marsha Lederman (noon/D/PDT) Aleksandar Hemon w/ Michael Holmes (noon/D/LST) Peter Schneider w/ John Sewell (1 pm/D/BRG) Jeffrey Meyers on George Orwell (2 pm/P/PDT) WP Kinsella w/ Jerry Howarth (2 pm/D/LST) Clara Thomas on her memoir (3 pm/P/BRG) Barry Moser on book illustration (4 pm/P/PDT) Colum McCann w/ Charles Foran (4 pm/D/ LST) Patrick Toner on Alden Nowlan (5 pm/P/BRG) Jeffrey Moore w/ Lawrence Hill (7 pm/D/LST) John Arden & Margaretta D’Arcy, Peter Davison & Colm McCann (8 pm/R/BRG) Anita Desai, David Leavitt, Hikaru Okuizumi (8 pm/R/PDT).

Monday, October 23 René Vázquez Díaz, Elisabeth Harvor, WP Kinsella (8 pm/R/BRG) Kjell Espmark, Claudio Magris, Susan Sontag (8 pm/R/PDT).

Tuesday, October 24 JK Rowling, Kenneth Oppel, Tim Wynne-Jones (11 am/special reading, Skydome, 870-8000) Elisabeth Harvor w/ Steven Heighton (5 pm/D/BRG) Kjell Espmark w/ Martin Levin (5 pm/D/PDT) David Helwig w/ Michael Valpy (5 pm/D/LST) Claudio Magris w/ Paul Kennedy (7 pm/D/PDT) Robert Drewe, Aleksandar Hemon, Ursula K Le Guin (8 pm/R/BRG) Oleh Lysheha, Farley Mowat, CK Stead (8 pm/R/LST) Susan Sontag w/ Evan Solomon (9 pm/D/PDT).

Wednesday, October 25 Ursula K Le Guin w/ Marilyn Powell (5 pm/D/BRG) Joanna Trollope w/ Ziggy Lorenc (5 pm/D/PDT) Jayne Anne Phillips w/ Marni Jackson (5 pm/D/LST) Elizabeth Hay w/ Jason Sherman (5 pm/D/ SDT) Farley Mowat w/ tba (7 pm/D/LST) Anne Enright w/ Eliza Clark (7 pm/D/SDT) Edward Baugh, David Foster, Spider Robinson (8 pm/R/ BRG) Maeve Binchy, Elizabeth Hay, Amanda Prantera (8 pm/R/PDT).

Thursday, October 26 Edward Baugh w/ Austin Clarke (5 pm/D/BRG) Lawrence Norfolk w/ Noah Richler (5 pm/D/PDT) Robert Drewe w/ Bill Cameron (5 pm/D/LST) Amanda Plantera w/ Katherine Govier (5 pm/D/SDT) John Banville w/ Charles Foran (7 pm/D/LST) Ali Smith w/ Shyam Selvadurai (7 pm/D/SDT) Marie-Claire Blais, Jeffrey Moore, Anne Michaels (8 pm/R/BRG) Anne Enright, Jayne Anne Phillips, Joanna Trollope (8 pm/R/PDT).

Friday, October 27 John Arden & Margaret D’Arcy w/ Christopher Newton (5 pm/D/BRG) Al Alvarez w/ Phyllis Grosskurth (5 pm/D/PDT) David Foster w/ Eleanor Wachtel (5 pm/D/LST) CK Stead w/ Karen Mulhallen (5 pm/D/SDT) Margaret Atwood w/ David Crombie (7 pm/D/ PDT) Marie-Claire Blais w/ Marie-Andree Michaud (7 pm/D/SDT) Al Alvarez, Ha Jin, Lawrence Norfolk (8 pm/R/BRG) John Banville, Blake Morrison, Martin Winckler (8 pm/R/LST) Carlos Fuentes w/ Bob Rae (9 pm/D/PDT).

Sunday, October 28 Josef Skvorecky w/ Tom Fulton (noon/D/LST) Blake Morrison w/ Barry Callaghan (1 pm/D/BRG) David Adams Richards w/ Paul Quarrington (2 pm/D/PDT) Oleh Lyshela w/ Lydia Palij (2 pm/D/LST) Ha Jin w/ John Fraser (3 pm/D/BRG) Spider Robinson w/ HJ Kirchhoff (4 pm/D/PDT) Martin Winckler w/ Robert Buckman (5 pm/D/BRG) Margaret Atwood, Carlos Fuentes (8 pm/R/PDT).

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