Alice - Author Reading, Samuel Archibald
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Saturday June 4 2016
Approximate running time: 2 hours
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Samuel Archibald is an author and academic, teaching at the University of Quebec in Montreal. His first short story collection, Arvida, was a bestseller in Quebec, it won Quebec’s Prix Des Libraries 2012 and Prix Coup de Coeur Renaud-Bray 2012. Translated into English by Donald Winkler, Arvida is an unforgettable portrait of Archibald’s hometown in Quebec and is filled with stories of wild beasts and young girls, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere. Arvida was a Finalist for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.