The Wild West: Gil Adamson’s Ridgerunner

Gil Adamson and Randy Boyagoda

The Wild West: Gil Adamson’s Ridgerunner

Gil Adamson and Randy Boyagoda

5:00pm

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

45 mins

A big congratulations to Gil Adamson on winning the 2020 Writers Trust Fiction Prize for her book Ridgerunner! To celebrate, check out this interview from #FestofAuthors20 with Gil.

Critically acclaimed author Gil Adamson presents Ridgerunner, the new follow up novel to her Dashiell Hammett Prize-winning book The Outlander.  Part literary western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner draws from the epic traditions of its genres with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world.

Interviewer: Randy Boyagoda

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A big congratulations to Gil Adamson on winning the 2020 Writers Trust Fiction Prize for her book Ridgerunner! To celebrate, check out this interview from #FestofAuthors20 with Gil.

Critically acclaimed author Gil Adamson presents Ridgerunner, the new follow up novel to her Dashiell Hammett Prize-winning book The Outlander.  Part literary western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner draws from the epic traditions of its genres with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world.

Interviewer: Randy Boyagoda

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Featured Authors

Gil Adamson
Gil Adamson is the critically acclaimed author of The Outlander, which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the ReLit Award and the Drummer General’s Award. It was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, CBC Canada Reads and the Prix Femina in France; longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as a Globe and Mail and Washington Post Top 100 Book. She is also the author of a collection of linked stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, and two poetry collections, Primitive and Ashland. She lives in Toronto.

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Randy Boyagoda
Randy Boyagoda is the author of six books, including the novels Governor of the Northern Province, Beggar’s Feast, and Original Prin. His work has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize, and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the year and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. An essayist, book critic and radio columnist, he is a professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he lives with his wife and their four daughters.

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5:00pm

Wednesday, October 28

45 mins

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