An Evening with Jane Urquhart

Stretching the Word Canvas: How Visual Art Painted Itself Into My Novels

Join Jane Urquhart for an evening of storytelling Wednesday, March 11 at 7 PM in Conron Hall. All welcome!

Jane Urquhart is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels, among them The Whirlpool, which received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger in France; Away, winner of the Trillium Award, The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General’s Award and a finalist for The Orange Prize in the UK, and The Stone Carvers, which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and for Britain’s Booker Prize. She is the author of a collection of short fiction, and four books of poetry, and she has also written a biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, and was editor of the most recent Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories. Her work, which is published in many countries, has been translated into numerous foreign languages. She is a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Jane is the current Western Writer-in-Residence and is an adjunct professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.