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Duration: 24 April,2021 at 10:00 - 2 May,2021 at 19:00

Cost: Free

Event Category: Community Events

Website: https://bluemetropolis.org/2021-festival/

Location: Online

Organizer: Blue Metropolis, 514 932-1112, info@bluemetropolis.org, View Organizer Website

April 24 to May 2, 2021, the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival will open its virtual doors for its spring program.

Over a hundred national and international invitees to tackle a thought-provoking theme: the challenges of our times.

Over fifty panels, debates, interviews—complete with fresh points of view on subject that interest you:
– Writers of a wounded Lebanon
– Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Africa and the West: Pacified Memories?
– David Grossman: “Trenchant Witness”
– Who are we? Where are we coming from? Indigenous voices of the moment
– Life in SLOW motion: the world around the corner
– Do writers ever really perish? Mathieu Lindon on Hervé Guibert
– Javier Cercas: The novel in search of the past/Palabras que profundizan el pasado
– All People Share the Same Rights
– A Teen Author’s Take on Loving and Supporting a Sibling With Autism