For Immediate Release
June 7, 2004
Novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald to read at The Banff Centre
June 16, 7:30 p.m. | Rolston Recital Hall, The Banff Centre | Free
Acclaimed Canadian writer Ann-Marie MacDonald will be at The Banff Centre at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 16 to read from her recent novel The Way the Crow Flies in the Centre’s Rolston Recital Hall.
MacDonald is here that week to collaborate with the novel’s Israeli translator as part of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, a Banff Centre program that is in its second year. BILTC brings together accomplished novelists and translators for the rare opportunity to work together on translations. This year, the program hosts five novelists and 15 translators from all over the world, translating works in English and French into languages including Dutch, Hebrew, Mayan, Romanian, and Russian.
Beginning her writing career as a playwright, MacDonald’s much-produced play Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1988. Her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, was published in 1996. It went on to win a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Published in 2003, The Way the Crow Flies is set in the deep freeze of the Cold War, when the space race and the opening of the suburbs made everything seem new and limitless.
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A downloadable, print-ready image of Ann-Marie MacDonald is at:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/communications/images/bsaf_2004/
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Jill Sawyer
Media and Communications Officer, The Banff Centre
403.762.6475
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