Bill Gaston (Canada) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright. His short story collection Gargoyles was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and won the ReLit Award and the City of Victoria Butler Prize. Gaston has also been shortlisted for the Giller Prize and was awarded the Writers’ Trust’s inaugural Timothy Findley Award for a body of work in 2002. In his latest book, The World, Gaston weaves together five heartbreaking stories tied to a book of the same name, which tells the story of a historian who unearths a cache of letters written in Chinese.
Upcoming Events
Sunday October 28, 2012
IFOA Orillia
- 7:30pm
- Orillia
- Orillia Public Library
Cost: $10
Featuring authors Bill Gaston, Linda Holeman, Benjamin Wood
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