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Time: 14:30 - 15:30

Date: 24 October, 2019

Cost: Free

Event Category: Community Events

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1706873169447458/

Location: Bibliothèque de Baie-D’Urfé—Baie-D'Urfé, Quebec Phone: 514 457 3274 Venue WebsiteView map

Join us Thursday October 24 at 2:30pm for a visit with award winning author Eliza Robertson. She will be reading from her book “Demi-Gods.”

Bio: ELIZA ROBERTSON’s 2014 debut collection, Wallflowers, was shortlisted for the East Anglia Book Award, the Danuta Gleed Short Story Prize, and selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her critically acclaimed first novel, Demi-Gods, was a Globe & Mail and National Post book of the year and the winner of the 2018 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of East Anglia, where she received the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize. In addition to being shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and Journey Prize, Eliza’s stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and 2017 Elizabeth Jolley Prize. Originally from Vancouver Island, Eliza lives in Montreal.

For more information: http://www.elizarobertson.com/