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.
Mahtab Narsimhan won the Silver Birch Award for her first novel, The Third Eye. Its sequels, The Silver Anklet and The Deadly Conch, have received critical acclaim. A native of Mumbai, Narsimhan now lives inToronto.
Mahtab Narsimhan is at the Children's Reading Tent at 2:00 PM
Jim Nason’s award-winning poems and stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies across the United States and Canada, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 & 2010. He has published two books of poetry: If Lips Were as Red (Palmerston Press) and The Fist of Remembering (Wolsak and Wynn); a...
Jim Nason is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 11:00 AM
April Nicolle is a multifaceted artist working in the diverse fields of storytelling, theatre stage management, fight choreography and production management. She is also an executive member of the Canadian Association of Storytellers for Children.
April Nicolle - Host is at the Children's Activity Tent at 11:30 AM - 2:45 PM
Samantha Nutt, M.D. is a medical doctor and Founder/Executive Director of War Child North America. For fifteen years, Dr Nutt has been at the frontline of many of the world's major crises — from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Congo and Sierra Leone to Darfur. Dr. Nutt was recently named one of Canada’s...
Samantha Nutt, M.D. is at the The Remarkable Reads Tent at 1:30 PM
