THE CAT'S TABLEwith Michael Ondaatje

Hosted by Joseph Boyden

In Person Fiction

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Wednesday

Oct

12:48am

Eastern

Ashbury College

362 Mariposa Avenue • Ottawa

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Ondaatje is one of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time.

The Guardian

Michael Ondaatje, winner of the Governor General’s Award, the Giller Prize and the Booker Prize returns with The Cat’s Table, a spellbinding and layered tale about the magical, often forbidden discoveries of childhood and the burdens of earned understanding. Join us for a taste of the new book and an on-stage conversation hosted by Giller Prize winner Joseph Boyden.

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The Authors

Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden’s first novel, Three Day Road, was selected for the Today Show Book Club, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named the Canadian Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Year; it also earned him the CBA’s Author of the Year Award. Boyden divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana.

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, including Coming Through Slaughter, The Cat’s Table, and Warlight; a memoir, Running in the Family; a nonfiction book on film-editing, The Conversations; and several books of poetry, including A Year of Last Things, The Cinnamon Peeler, and Handwriting. Among the international accolades, for all his work, The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film by Anthony Minghella. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.