Marta Orriols & John Elizabeth Stintzi

Unpacking Grief: Marta Orriols & John Elizabeth Stintzi

Marta Orriols, John Elizabeth Stintzi and Janet Smyth

Unpacking Grief: Marta Orriols & John Elizabeth Stintzi

Marta Orriols, John Elizabeth Stintzi and Janet Smyth

6:00pm

Friday, October 23, 2020

60 mins

Investigate the many ways of losing someone and opportunities to move forward from past broken relationships, in this conversation between two acclaimed authors. Spanish writer and art historian Marta Orriols delivers a darkly funny yet piercingly honest portrayal of grief in Learning to Talk to Plants, while Canadian non-binary writer and poet John Elizabeth Stintzi suggests that what haunts us most is what remains, in Vanishing Monuments.

Interviewer: Janet Smyth

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Investigate the many ways of losing someone and opportunities to move forward from past broken relationships, in this conversation between two acclaimed authors. Spanish writer and art historian Marta Orriols delivers a darkly funny yet piercingly honest portrayal of grief in Learning to Talk to Plants, while Canadian non-binary writer and poet John Elizabeth Stintzi suggests that what haunts us most is what remains, in Vanishing Monuments.

Interviewer: Janet Smyth

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Featured Authors

Marta Orriols is a Catalan writer based in Barcelona. Graduated in Art History, she also studied creative and screenplay writing. Orriols broke into the Catalan literary scene with short story collection, Anatomia de les distàncies curtes. Her novel, Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes, the story of a young neonatologist whose partner dies in an accident, has been translated into 11 languages. The novel won the best Catalan Novel Òmnium Award in 2018. She is a contributor to several Spanish media. Her second novel, Dolça introducció al caos, was recently published in September 2020. Appearance supported by Institut Ramon Llull.

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John Elizabeth Stintzi is a non-binary writer who was raised on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. They are the author of two previous chapbooks of poetry, and their poems have been awarded the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the Long Poem Prize from the Malahat Review. They are the author of the novel Vanishing Monuments (Arsenal Pulp) as well as the poetry collection Junebat (Anansi). They currently live in Kansas City with their partner and their dog, Grendel.

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Janet Smyth is an arts programme consultant specialising in strategic planning of events, programmes and projects for children, young people, educators and care-givers within festivals and creative spaces. She has worked with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the National Galleries of Scotland, Seven Stories in Newcastle and is currently Children’s and Families Programmer for International Literature Festival Dublin, Programme Consultant for the Bath Children's Literature Festival and Reading is Magic virtual festival, Children and Families Programme Curator for the Boswell Book Festival in Scotland and Programme Consultant for the TIFA Kids 2021 Festival.

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Marta Orriols & John Elizabeth Stintzi

6:00pm

Friday, October 23

60 mins

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