Catherine Bush & Roy Jacobsen

The Landscapes of Us: Catherine Bush & Roy Jacobsen

Catherine Bush, Roy Jacobsen and Lee Gowan

The Landscapes of Us: Catherine Bush & Roy Jacobsen

Catherine Bush, Roy Jacobsen and Lee Gowan

3:30pm

Sunday, October 25, 2020

45 mins

Join Canadian author Catherine Bush (Blaze Island) and Norwegian novelist and short story writer Roy Jacobsen (The Unseen), as they discuss family, fate, resilience and survival in inhospitable landscapes. Together, they will discuss how their new works of fiction capture the very real connections that humans have with the land on which they live, by delving into the effects of global methodology on the hyper-local in their riveting new stories.

Interviewer: Lee Gowan

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Join Canadian author Catherine Bush (Blaze Island) and Norwegian novelist and short story writer Roy Jacobsen (The Unseen), as they discuss family, fate, resilience and survival in inhospitable landscapes. Together, they will discuss how their new works of fiction capture the very real connections that humans have with the land on which they live, by delving into the effects of global methodology on the hyper-local in their riveting new stories.

Interviewer: Lee Gowan

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Featured Authors

Catherine Bush
Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe & Mail Best Book and Hamilton Reads 2021 pick, and The Rules of Engagement (2000), a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book. Her books have been shortlisted for the Trillium and City of Toronto Book Awards. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, Brick, Emergence, Noema, and Best Canadian Essays. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto. She can be found online at www.catherinebush.com.

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Roy Jacobsen
Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing debut in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life), which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and two of his novels have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize: Seierherrene (The Conquerors) in 1991 and Frost in 2004. The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles was published in Britain in 2008. Jacobsen lives in Oslo.

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Lee Gowan
Lee Gowan is the author of the novels Confession, The Last Cowboy, (published in France as Jusqu’au bout du ciel), and Make Believe Love, which was nominated for the Trillium Award for best book in Ontario. He also published the critically acclaimed story collection Going to Cuba, and wrote the award-winning screenplay for Paris or Somewhere. He is the Program Director for Creative Writing at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. 

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Catherine Bush & Roy Jacobsen

3:30pm

Sunday, October 25

45 mins

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