Incite: Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy and Leslie Hurtig

Incite: Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy and Leslie Hurtig

7:00pm

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Join us for a special event with two-time Man Booker Prize finalist and Royal Society of Literature fellow Deborah Levy, in celebration of Real Estate, the final instalment in her critically-acclaimed “living autobiography” series. A boldly intimate meditation on the value of home, property and possessions—in all of their forms—Real Estate is a stunning, evocative and thought-provoking treatise on what it means to be a woman in a system of renting, buying and selling, and why we must knock it all down.

Exploring complex issues of society, patriarchy and the measure of one’s life, Deborah Levy will join Vancouver Writers Fest’s Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig in an intimate, pre-recorded conversation and fitting finale for their 2021 Incite season. Reserve your space now for this one-of-a-kind event.

This Incite event is presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library and the Toronto International Festival of Authors. This event is also available through the TELUS Optik network.

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Conversation

Join us for a special event with two-time Man Booker Prize finalist and Royal Society of Literature fellow Deborah Levy, in celebration of Real Estate, the final instalment in her critically-acclaimed “living autobiography” series. A boldly intimate meditation on the value of home, property and possessions—in all of their forms—Real Estate is a stunning, evocative and thought-provoking treatise on what it means to be a woman in a system of renting, buying and selling, and why we must knock it all down.

Exploring complex issues of society, patriarchy and the measure of one’s life, Deborah Levy will join Vancouver Writers Fest’s Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig in an intimate, pre-recorded conversation and fitting finale for their 2021 Incite season. Reserve your space now for this one-of-a-kind event.

This Incite event is presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library and the Toronto International Festival of Authors. This event is also available through the TELUS Optik network.

Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) logo       

Conversation

Featured Authors

Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home and Hot Milk, and two volumes of memoir, Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living. Both Swimming Home and Hot Milk were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor short story award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic case studies, Dora, and The Wolfman. Levy has written for The Royal Shakespeare Company, and her pioneering theater writing is collected in Levy: Plays 1. Deborah Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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Leslie Hurtig was born into a house of books and has made her career from various points within Canada’s book industry. She has worked for some of Canada’s best bookstores and acted as a sales representative, publicist and foreign rights manager for some of North America’s great publishers. Leslie has been with the Vancouver Writers Fest for over 20 years; first as a Director on its board, and now as Artistic Director, programming remarkable voices and stories from across Canada and around the world.

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7:00pm

Wednesday, May 26

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