Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm
Featured Authors
Guy Vanderhaeghe’s previous fiction includes The Last Crossing, The Englishman’s Boy, Things as they Are, Homesick, My Present Age, and Man Descending. Among the many awards and honours he has received are Canada Reads, the Governor General’s Awards (twice), the Writers’ Trust Timothy Findley Award, and the Harbourfront Festival Prize. He lives in Saskatchewan.
Sylvia Tyson was for eighteen years one half of the internationally renowned folk duo Ian and Sylvia, who shared a manager with such luminaries as Bob Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin, and Peter, Paul and Mary. Sylvia Tyson has recorded ten solo albums since the duo split in 1975, and since 2000 has been recording and performing with the group Quartette. Tyson is a member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. She lives in Toronto.
Michael Smith is the bestselling author of Chef at Home and The Best of Chef at Home as well as the star of several Food Network TV shows including Chef at Home. A passionate advocate of simple, sustainable flavours, he led the team of chefs that cooked for the world’s Olympians at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. He lives on Prince Edward Island with his son Gabriel.
Natasha Turner, N.D., is a leading naturopathic doctor and an authority on hormonal and digestive concerns. She is the founder of Clear Medicine, a Canadian-based wellness boutique that provides integrated health care. As a health consultant and educator, Dr. Turner lectures across Canada, appears frequently in the media and has contributed to the creation of two commercial weight-loss programs, which have helped to transform many lives.
Matt Galloway is the host of CBC Radio One 99.1's Metro Morning.
Matt has been working at CBC Radio for more than 10 years and has hosted almost a dozen different CBC Radio programs, including The Current, Sounds Like Canada, Metro Morning, The Roundup, The Arts Today, ...
Matt Galloway - Host is at the Scotiabank Giller Prize Bestsellers Stage at 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Jian Ghomeshi is an award-winning broadcaster, writer, musician and producer. He is the host and co-creator of Q, the national daily talk program on CBC Radio One and CBC TV. Since its inception in 2007, Q has garnered the largest audience of any cultural affairs program in Canada and has become the highest-rated show in its...
Jian Ghomeshi - Host is at the Scotiabank Giller Prize Bestsellers Stage at 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Douglas Gibson worked as an editor and publisher from 1968 until he retired from McClelland & Stewart in 2009. His Douglas Gibson Books was Canada’s first editorial imprint and lives on. He travels widely however Toronto remains as his home base.
Douglas Gibson is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 3:00 PM
Catherine Gildiner has been a clinical psychologist in private practice for many years. Her bestselling memoir Too Close to the Falls was published in Canada, the US and the UK to wide acclaim in 1999. Her second book, Seduction, a novel, was a national bestseller. She lives in Toronto.
Catherine Gildiner is at the The Remarkable Reads Tent at 12:45 PM
Misha Glouberman is a Canadian instructor in improvised music and theatre who has hosted the Trampoline Hall lectures, as well as Terrible Noises for Beautiful People, a series of participatory sound events.
Sheila Heti created the Trampoline Hall lecture series in 2001. She is the author of several books...
Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti is at the Great Books Marquee at 1:45 PM
A former president and publisher of Penguin Books, Cynthia Good, Director, Creative Book Publishing Program, Humber has been in the publishing industry for over twenty-five years. Under her leadership the roster included such writers as John Ralston Saul, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Adams, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler,...
Cynthia Good is at the Voices 106.5FM Wordshop Marquee at 2:00 PM
Catherine Grahamis the author of three critically acclaimed collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in North America, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Vice-President of Project Bookmark Canada and Marketing Coordinator for the Rowers Pub Reading Series, she teaches creative writing at the...
Catherine Graham is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 12:00 PM
James Grainger is the author of The Long Slide and a books columnist for Quill & Quire and the Toronto Star.
James Grainger - Host is at the Great Books Marquee at 11:00 AM - 2:15 PM
Ken Greenberg is an architect and urban designer, living in Toronto. For over three decades he has played a pivotal role on public and private assignments in urban settings throughout North America and Europe. He is the recipient of the 2010 American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Award for public design...
Ken Greenberg is at the The Remarkable Reads Tent at 1:45 PM
Helen Guri graduated from the University of Toronto’s Creative Writing program, and has taught writing at Humber College. Her work has appeared in many Canadian journals, including Arc, Descant, Event, Fiddlehead and Grain. Match is her first collection. She lives in Toronto.
Helen Guri is at the Great Books Marquee at 4:30 PM
Richard Gwyn is an award-winning author and political columnist, widely known as a commentator for the Toronto Star on national and international affairs. His books include two highly praised biographies (on Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood, and on Pierre Elliot Trudeau). His book, Nationalism Without Walls...
Richard Gwyn is at the The Remarkable Reads Tent at 4:15 PM
