Munro Beattie Lecturewith André Alexis

Presented by Carleton University

In Person Poetry Fiction Big Ideas

General Admission

Free

Thursday

Jan , 2017

7:00pm

Eastern

Azrieli Theatre, Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Dr. • Ottawa

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[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized.

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The Dean of FASS and the Department of English are delighted to announce that the 2016-2017 Munro Beattie Lecture will be delivered by acclaimed Canadian writer—and former Carleton student—André Alexis.

The Munro Beattie Lecture was launched in 1985 to honour the English department’s founding chair and his contributions to literary studies in Canada. 2017 marks not only the 75th anniversary of Carleton University, but the 65th anniversary of the Department of English. This year’s Munro Beattie lecture will feature festivities such as door prizes and a reception with cake to help to kick off CU 75 celebrations, and to toast the English department’s history as a key contributor to the development of Canadian literary studies as an academic field.

This is a free public lecture. No reserved seating.

The Authors

Andre Alexis

André Alexis is the author of Fifteen Dogs, which won the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. He is the author of Days by Moonlight, which won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the Giller Prize; The Hidden Keys, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award; Pastoral, which was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; A (a novella); Beauty and Sadness, which was longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Asylum; and Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and the Caribbean). He is also the author of Ingrid and the Wolf, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Fiction and the play Lambton Kent. He wrote librettos for James Rolfe’s operas Orpheus and Eurydice and Aeneas and Dido. He has been a regular book reviewer for the Globe and Mail, and was the host and writer of CBC Radio One’s “Radio Nomad” and CBC Radio 2’s “Skylarking.” In 2017, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for fiction. Alexis lives in Toronto.