Blue Metropolis Literary Festival
Librairie Gallimard
3700 St Laurent Blvd
Montreal QC H2X 2V4
Canada
Admission: Can$10
Join the Blue Metropolis Literary Fesitaval for a conversation with Colin Niel, Peter Kirby, Deni Ellis-Béchard (White, 2018), and Isabelle Daunais on how a novel might be able to address the environmental and social issues of our time.
About the event:
On dit parfois du roman qu’il est une tranche de réel montrée en gros plan. Du coup, peut-il contribuer à changer le monde en montrant ses dérives ? Le roman peut-il aborder les enjeux écologistes ou sociaux de notre temps sans être plombé par des convictions?
Deni Ellis Béchard
Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of eight previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Into the Sun, winner of the 2016 Midwest Book Award for Literary Fiction and selected by CBC/Ra
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