Plan 99 Fiction Cabaret with Tamas Dobozy and Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Hosted by David O’Meara

In Person Fiction

Admission

Free

Saturday

Apr , 2013

5:00pm

Eastern

The Manx Pub

370 Elgin St. • Ottawa

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Plan 99 Fiction Cabaret with Tamas Dobozy and Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Elisabeth de Mariaffi is urgently trapping the ten percent of emotions that hardly get mentioned by anyone else. She’s alive to what disturbs, and she’s dead to cliché.

Michael Winter, author of The Death of Donna Whalen

An afternoon of acclaimed fiction presented in collaboration with the Plan 99 Reading Series.

A sharply original debut collection, How To Get Along With Women showcases Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s keen eye and inventive voice. Infused with a close and present danger, these stories tighten the knot around power, identity, and sexuality, and draw the reader into the pivotal moments where—for better or for worse—we see ourselves for what we truly are.

In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. Tamas Dobozy’s Siege 13 is an award-winning collection of thirteen linked stories about this terrible time in history, both its historical moment, but also later, as a legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors.

The Authors

Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Elisabeth de Mariaffi's debut book of short stories, How to Get Along with Women, was longlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her poetry and short fiction have been widely published in magazines across Canada. Her first novel, The Devil You Know, was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by the Globe and Mail and the National Post. The Globe and Mail also chose her most recent novel, Hysteria, as one of the Best Books of 2018. Both books were shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Elisabeth de Mariaffi lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, with the poet George Murray and their four children.

Tamas Dobozy

Tamas Dobozy was born in Nanaimo, BC. After receiving his Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia, he taught at Memorial University. His work has been published in journals throughout North America, and in 1995 he won the annual subTerrain short fiction contest. When X Equals Marylou, his first collection of short fiction, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. Siege 13 was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Fiction, and winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Tamas Dobozy now teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario.