Monday, January 31: Keynote Address – Joseph Boyden
12:00 NOON – 1:30 PM
Myer Horowitz Theatre (SUB)
Myer Horowitz Theatre (SUB)
The Creative Migrant: Chasing the Muse Across Landscapes and Borders
Musical Introduction by Global Voices Choir
Migration is often seen only as a racial and cultural phenomenon, but a whole underclass of artisans exists—writers, artists, photographers, and educators—who are forced to pull up stakes and leave their traditional homes in pursuit of work, and certainly in pursuit of their muse.
Come listen to award-winning Canadian author Joseph Boyden share his own insight into some of the journeys undertaken by countless artists over the last century.
Bio:
Joseph Boyden is a celebrated Canadian author and short-story writer whose works focus on the experience of First Nations people in Northern Ontario. His debut novel, Three Day Road—a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I—was a national and international bestseller and won several awards including the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize, the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award, the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and France’s Prix Literaire. Three Day Road was also short-listed for the Canada’s Governor General’s Award and has been translated into 15 languages.
His second novel, Through Black Spruce, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2008, the Libris Book of the Year and Author of the Year awards, and was nominated for the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. Through Black Spruce has been published internationally in a dozen languages.
Boyden is a contributing writer for Canada’s Maclean’s and Zoomer magazines and has published and continues to publish fiction and nonfiction in a variety of places, including Walrus, Driven, and the Globe and Mail. His work has been anthologized in PEN International and Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories and elsewhere.
His second novel, Through Black Spruce, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2008, the Libris Book of the Year and Author of the Year awards, and was nominated for the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. Through Black Spruce has been published internationally in a dozen languages.
Boyden is a contributing writer for Canada’s Maclean’s and Zoomer magazines and has published and continues to publish fiction and nonfiction in a variety of places, including Walrus, Driven, and the Globe and Mail. His work has been anthologized in PEN International and Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories and elsewhere.
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