Irish-Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker Anakana Schofield will be in Sechelt for a reading next Saturday, Nov. 22.
Schofield is one of a new wave of brilliant, multi-talented young writers in Vancouver who are publicly engaged and ready to move beyond borders of genre and conventional arts.
In 2011, for example, she curated a series of public events called Rereading the Riot Act, designed to revitalize awareness of the labour movement and the history of public protest in B.C.
Schofield’s first novel, Malarky, won the Amazon.ca first novel award, and the Debut-Litzer prize in the U.S., and was short-listed for the Ethel Wilson prize.
It is the story of a widowed Irish farm wife struggling with her grief and her sexuality. At times deeply tragic, at others darkly — even hilariously — funny, the novel has been described by reviewers as “exuberant,” “audacious” and “brilliant.”
Known as an exciting, irreverent presenter, Schofield should light up the Crowston Gallery, and she may tell us about her new novel, Martin John, coming out next fall.
Don’t miss her reading at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre at 8 p.m. Admission is by donation, courtesy of the Canada Council and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council.
