Lunch with Vincent Lam at Fraser Cafe's Table 40

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Apr , 2012

11:30am

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Fraser Café's Table 40

11 Springfield Road • Ottawa

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Lunch with Vincent Lam at Fraser Cafe's Table 40

Vincent Lam crafts sentences that veteran writers will covet. His fresh and stunning talent will satisfy all readers who hunger for powerful stories.

Wayson Choy, author of All That Matters

SEATING IS LIMITED.

Join us for an intimate session with Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam. Tickets for this exclusive event - a fundraiser for our free Children’s literacy programs - include a delicious meal, a copy of The Headmaster’s Wager, and a candid conversation on his life, his work and the inspiration for his acclaimed new novel.

The Authors

Vincent Lam

Vincent Lam’s first book, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was adapted for television and broadcast on HBO Canada. The Headmaster’s Wager, Dr. Lam’s first novel, was shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award and the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. Dr. Lam is also the co-author of The Flu Pandemic and You, a non-fiction guide to influenza pandemics, which received a Special Recognition Award by the American Medical Writers’ Association in 2007. He served as executive editor and co-author of the textbook, Opioid Agonist Therapy: A Prescriber's Guide to Treatment, published in 2022. In 2011, he published a biography of Tommy Douglas, “father of medicare,” for Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians Series. Dr. Lam is an emergency physician and addictions physician who lives in Toronto. He is the medical director of the Coderix Medical Clinic.