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Woodstock Library to Host the International Festival of Authors

A big crowd is expected to form at Knox Presbyterian Church on October 21st to welcome world renowned authors

WOODSTOCK - Some of Canada's best and brightest authors are coming to Woodstock on Wednesday October 21st. 

The Woodstock Library is hosting the International Festival of Authors which will feature three Canadians and an author from Spain. CEO for the library Gary Baumbach tells Heart FM you will get a chance to hear the authors read from their work and of course ask questions. 

"We typically follow those readers with a question and answer period which is a wonderful opportunity to start getting to know the authors, getting to know their thoughts about writing, getting to know a little bit more about them and how they came to write the books that they had read from." 

The event will feature four prominent authors: 

Lauren B. Davis (Canada) is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels The Stubborn Season, The Radiant City and The Empty Room. Her novel, Our Daily Bread, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a best book of the year by both The Globe and Mail and The Boston Globe. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives and An Unrehearsed Desire Born. Davis presents her latest novel, Against a Darkening Sky, a rich and fascinating story set in a mysterious, magic-riddled 7th-century England.

Farzana Doctor (Canada) is the author of Stealing Nasreen and Six Metres of Pavement, which won the 2012 Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. She has been listed as one of CBC Books' Ten Canadian Women Writers You Need to Read Now and is the recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Grant. She co-curates the Brockton Writers Series.  Doctor presents All Inclusive, a story about a Mexican resort, the ghost of an unknown father and the tragedies we can't forget.

Terry Fallis (Canada) is the award-winning author of four national bestsellers. His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans, won the 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and was the 2011 winner of CBC Canada Reads. Fallis' third novel, Up and Down, was a finalist for the 2013 Leacock Medal, and won the 2013 Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award. In 2013, Fallis received the Libris Award for Author of the Year. His fourth novel, No Relation, won the 2015 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Fallis presents Poles Apart, a hilarious novel about a young man who creates a feminist blog and becomes an overnight sensation.

Martí Sales (Spain) has contributed to Time Out Barcelona and translated the works of John Fante, Kurt Vonnegut, Jim Dodge and Harold Pinter. He is the author of Dies feliços a la presó, Ara és el moment and Principid'incertesa. Most notably, he was the Director of the International Poetry Festival of Barcelona from 2010 to 2012. Sales presents his first work of poetry to be translated into English, Huckleberry Finn, a rich and imaginative collection about the discovery of enthusiasm.

The event is happening at the Knox Presbyterian Church because they didn't think they would have enough space at the library. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Library and at Merrifield Book Shop. Tickets may also be purchased through the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416-973-4000.

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