The Robson Reading Series - Wayson Choy & Rawi Hage - Mar 5 - 3pm

The Robson Reading Series, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
and Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad are pleased to announce

TWO readings at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC, 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC.

Wayson Choy
Author of The Jade Peony and All That Matters
Musqueam Room (rm 455)
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
3:00pm, 1961 East Mall

and

Rawi Hage
Author of DeNiro's Game
Musqueam Room (rm 455)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
3:00pm, 1961 East Mall

All events are free to the public.

Wayson Choy is a Vancouver-born Canadian writer of Chinese ancestry who spent his childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown. He is the author of the novel The Jade Peony (1995), which won the Trillium Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. He also wrote the memoir Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood (1999), which won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Choy attended the University of British Columbia, where he studied creative writing. Moving to Toronto in 1962, Choy taught at Humber College and the Humber School for Writers from 1967 to 2004. He was president of the Cahoots Theatre Company of Toronto from 1999 to 2002. His latest novel, All That Matters, was published in 2004 and was nominated for the Giller Prize. In 2005, he was named a member of the Order of Canada.

Rawi Hage is the author of the novel DeNiro's Game, which was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award in 2006. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war before emigrating.to Canada in 1992. A writer, visual artist and curator, Hage's writings have appeared in Fuse Magazine, Mizna, Jouvert, The Toronto Review, Montreal Serai and Al-Jadid. His visual works have been displayed in galleries and museums around the world. He is also the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec. Hage resides in Montreal.

Both events co-presented by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

For more information see www.robsonreadingseries.ubc.ca or www.vancouver2010.com.

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
The University of British Columbia
1961 East Mall
Vancouver, BC,
T: 604.822.2298

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