The Arts Council will launch its fall season of literary readings on Sept. 25 with distinguished Mani-toba author David Arnason.
A master of many genres, from the novel and drama to political commentary songs for the CBC, Arnason is most celebrated for his poetry and for short story collections with names such as Fifty Stories and a Piece of Advice, The Dragon and the Dry Goods Princess and If Pigs Could Fly.
Readers of his fiction can expect innovative styles and a characteristic wit and humour.
Co-founder of the Journal of Canadian Fiction and of Queenston House Press, Arnason has been a major figure in western Canadian literature for decades, not only as a writer but as a publisher, editor, scholar and teacher at the University of Manitoba.
Arnason was born in Gimli to Icelandic parents, and his Norse heritage is evident in his latest novel, Baldur's Song, A Saga, set in nineteenth-century New Iceland and Winnipeg. Himself a great Viking of a man, he is a pleasure to meet as well as to hear from the podium, so come to the Arts Centre at Trail and Medusa in Sechelt at 8 p.m. Admission is free, courtesy of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council and Turnstone Press.
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