GGBooks Finalists in Conversation: What I Remember, What I Know, with Larry Audlaluk

Larry Audlaluk and Kim Wheeler

GGBooks Finalists in Conversation: What I Remember, What I Know, with Larry Audlaluk

Larry Audlaluk and Kim Wheeler

2:30pm

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Larry Audlaluk was one of more than 90 Inuit relocated by the federal government to the High Arctic in the 1950s. They were promised a land of plenty, and were given an inhospitable polar desert. Audlaluk’s memoir, What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile, documents his family’s struggle, juxtaposed with excerpts from official reports that conveyed the relocation as a success. Hear from Audlaluk in candid conversation about the experience, the broken promises and the fight to return home.

Interviewer: Kim Wheeler

This event is organized in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) to celebrate the 2021 non-fiction finalists of the Governor General’s Literary Awards, which recognize Canada’s best English-language and French-language books. The winners will be announced by the CCA on November 17.

Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) logo       GG Books & Canada Council for the Arts logo

Conversation
Reading

Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Larry Audlaluk was one of more than 90 Inuit relocated by the federal government to the High Arctic in the 1950s. They were promised a land of plenty, and were given an inhospitable polar desert. Audlaluk’s memoir, What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile, documents his family’s struggle, juxtaposed with excerpts from official reports that conveyed the relocation as a success. Hear from Audlaluk in candid conversation about the experience, the broken promises and the fight to return home.

Interviewer: Kim Wheeler

This event is organized in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) to celebrate the 2021 non-fiction finalists of the Governor General’s Literary Awards, which recognize Canada’s best English-language and French-language books. The winners will be announced by the CCA on November 17.

Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) logo       GG Books & Canada Council for the Arts logo

Conversation
Reading

Featured Authors

Larry Audlaluk
Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a small camp west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec. He was relocated to the High Arctic with his family when he was almost three years old. Larry was inducted into the Order of Canada for his years working as an ambassador for the people of Grise Fiord, Canada’s northernmost civilian settlement, and is the community’s longest-living resident.

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Kim Wheeler
Kim Wheeler is a Mohawk/Anishinaabe kwe who has brought positive Indigenous stories to mainstream and Indigenous media since 1993. She has carved out a career as a writer, publicist and producer across a variety of disciplines. Her audio work has been recognized by the New York Festivals, ImagineNative, Indigenous Music Awards and Prix Italia. Currently, Kim works from her treehouse media office with multiple clients in publicity, magazines, film and podcasts. She is also the host of The Kim Wheeler Show on SiriusXM.

Read more about Kim Wheeler

2:30pm

Tuesday, November 16

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