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Giller Prize Winning Author Meets with Students at Trent in Durham

Writers' Reading series brings Lynn Coady to Trent University Durham

Giller Prize Winning Author Meets with Students at Trent in Durham
Giller Prize Winning Author Meets with Students at Trent in Durham

“It’s a chance for students to match the page with the face and start to realize that there are ideas crackling behind the words. It’s also a chance for students to learn that literature is a kind of vital, breathing thing that they can encounter.”

In the words of Dr. Joel Baetz, professor of English Literature at Trent University Durham, Oshawa Campus, this is the goal of the long-standing Writers’ Reading Series at Trent.

Most recently, the series brought Giller Prize winning author Lynn Coady to the Oshawa campus to meet students and community members at a well-attended public reading.

During the reading, Ms. Coady read segments of “Mr. Hope,” the final story from Hellgoing, her latest collection of provocative short stories, which captured Canada’s top literary award, the Giller Prize in 2013. In the open discussion that followed the reading, Ms. Coady revealed the frank, behind-the-scenes life of a writer filled with emotional uncertainty yet unwavering dedication to the craft.

Attending her first author reading, third-year Psychology student, Emily Walker said: “It was interesting to see the perspective of the author as opposed to your own interpretation and to see what she has to say and how it contradicts and contrasts.”

Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.

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