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Join Giller Prize-winning authors Souvankham Thammavongsa and Ian Williams for a rich conversation on intimacy, agency, loneliness, labour, and class. Thammavongsa’s Pick a Colour traces a single day in a nail salon, where Ning, a former boxer, contends with power, class, and invisibility, and explore the interior worlds of characters navigating systems that seek to contain them. You’ve Changed, by Giller prize-winning Ian Williams, follows a couple going through their own challenges surrounding identity, insecurity, intimacy, and desire, and how relationships change a person even when they both promise not to.

Moderated by I. Augustus Durham

Pick a Colour

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Souvankham Thammavongsa

Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have won an O.

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Ian Williams

Ian Williams is the author of seven acclaimed books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. He delivered the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, What I Mean to Say, on rehabilitating conversations.

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