National Gallery of Canada Creative Writing Workshop with Frances Itani

In Person Fiction
Date
Admission
Free
Date
Sunday
May , 2015
24
12:00pm
Eastern
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive • Ottawa
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National Gallery of Canada Creative Writing Workshop with Frances Itani

Inspire your writing with the paintings of Alex Colville and the guidance of acclaimed authors. Open to all levels of writing ability.

Frances Itani is an internationally known, bestselling author of 16 books and her work has been translated in 17 countries. She has won many awards, including a Commonwealth Prize for her novel Deafening, for which she was also shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. She is a three-time winner of the CBC Literary Award and her most recent novel, Tell, was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A well-known teacher and public speaker, she is a Member of the Order of Canada. In English.
Meet in the Education Studio. May 24, Noon to 3PM
Space is limited. Cost: $38 Member; $50 Non-member. Registration required. Please call 613-998-8888 or visit the box office.

The Authors

Frances Itani

Frances Itani

Frances Itani has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.  

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