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One of Canada’s best loved writers, Jane Urquhart, brings her newest novel to the TIFA stage in an interview about the profound and moving In the Winter I Get Up at Night. The novel charts an unforgettable life as a Saskatchewan woman revisits the journey of her life, the figures who shaped as the world’s forces ebbed and flowed. Urquhart carries the reader through time and memory in a dream-like fashion and bringing the luminous prose many have come to expect after her seven internationally acclaimed novels.

Moderator: Donna Bailey Nurse

Generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel & The Honourable Nicole Eaton.

In Winter I Get Up at Night

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Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart, one of Canada’s best loved writers, is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels, which have received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; the Trillium Award; and the Governor General’s Award, and have been finalists or longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; the Orange Prize; The Giller Prize; the Booker Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, among others. She is a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Photo credit: Nicholas Tinkl.