Friday, September 21 to Sunday, September 23, 2012
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Over the years, The Word On The Street Vancouver has played host to all manner of authors. We are proud to welcome more than 100 authors, illustrators and panelists for the 2011 festival, including:
Charlotte Gill | Evelyn Lau
Georgia Nicols | Gurjinder Basran
John Furlong | John Vaillant
Richard Wagamese | Timothy Taylor
Evelyn Lau is the author of four volumes of poetry, two works of non-fiction, two short story collections and a novel. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid was a Canadian bestseller and was made into a CBC movie starring Sandra Oh in her first major role. Living Under Plastic won the 2011 Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Poetry.
Evelyn Lau is at the Carnegie Centre at 1:45
Duane Lawrence is a high school teacher who has lived and taught in London, England and Nara, Japan. Duane enjoys walking in Stanley Park and was inspired to write about the animals living there.
Duane Lawrence is at the Kids Tent at 11:20
Julie Lawson is a former elementary school teacher and the award-winning author of many children’s books. She is inspired by historical events as well as by personal history.
Julie Lawson is at the Kids Tent at 4:00
Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s Eastside and is now the voice behind “Westcoast Words,” a weekly writing column featured on CBC Radio One’s On the Coast and All Points West.
Jen Sookfong Lee is at the Canada Writes at 12:20
JJ Lee is the menswear columnist for the Vancouver Sun and broadcasts a weekly fashion column for CBC Radio in Vancouver. For years, journalist and amateur tailor JJ Lee tried to ignore the navy suit that hung at the back of his closet—his late father’s last suit. JJ Lee will read from The Measure of a Man and...
JJ Lee is at the Authors Tent at 11:30
