CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THESE WRITERS HAVE IN COMMON?
American writer Richard Ford: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Carolina De Robertis: Women’s Stories As History
Koethi Zan: crime novel, The Never List
Lisa Moore long listed for Man Booker prize
Wolf Haas, author of seven books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series
Give up?
They’ll all be at The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival
April 28 to May 4
If you happen to be in the area this is a GREAT festival.
Have a look at their site.
Until then, I’ll be gone hiking.
Photographer: Wolfgang Moroder
Sounds like a great festival, Carol! Thanks for sharing.
Enjoy the festival . . . and the pre-festival hiking. Love that bottom shot. It looks a bit like the Badlands in the Dakotas.
Sounds awesome! Lucky you to have that opportunity to go. Enjoy your hiking, but I can’t help but wonder…isn’t it still cold where you live? Even better, maybe you are going on a great trip? 🙂
I’m flying to Arizona tomorrow so it’ll be hot. I’ll be hiking around the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon. Happy Easter. 🙂
Wow! That is fabulous! Ironically, my husband and I are planning to rent a place down there for a few months next winter! I love the desert. Enjoy and Happy Easter 🙂
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Are you hiking there? Or taking a break before the festival? Sounds like a fun time. Wished I lived closer. Or had family to visit. If you do go, enjoy! Hugs
Thanks…Wish you lived closer too. Have a Great Easter Weekend. 🙂
Sounds like a fun festival. Have fun hiking!
Wow! I would absolutely love to be in such great company, or truly just be there and listen to them, but that’s not likely. 🙂
I’m sure where you are there are also awesome conferences. Have a great weekend. 🙂
Wish I could be there since I love Montreal. But it’s a bit of a commute from Istanbul. It looks good, though.
Must be fun living in Istanbul. Thanks for reading and commenting. Have A Great Weekend. How do you celebrate Easter in Istanbul?
I really don’t since I have no one to celebrate it with and it’s not part of the culture here. I know some Armenians who have Easter on a different date because they follow a different calendar but like Christmas, it’s just another day here. The Muslim holy days are celebrated instead which is to be expected.
I’ll grill some fish, drink wine, and sing songs with the cat. Take a walk by the sea and maybe watch some Marx Brothers in the evening. And then teach on Monday.
Well, it sounds like a nice way to spend Easter.
What an amazing experience this must be for you.
Two years ago I had a six week contract teaching Business English at the University of Ho Chi Minh.
It was so much fun and I got to see Southern Vietnam as a foreigner and not a tourist.
I will forever be grateful for having had this experience and i can imagine what an intense experience you must be immersed in.
Whatever made you want to station yourself there?
It’s a long story with no one clear answer. I’ve touched on it in some of my memoir type posts but the short version is I grew disillusioned with the US and had always wanted to live in Europe. When here for a wedding in 2008, I was offered a job as head of the English program at a new 2 year college and I took it. I find I have more time to write here. For example, I finished 4 novels here in 4 years (all available on kindle at amazon) and had one published in Turkish here and now another will be published by a British publisher later this year. In the US, I was always an educator first and part-time writer. Here I’m a writer first and educator, though not part-time, at least second. And I can easily travel from here so that is rewarding. I also like the people very much. And so on.
This definitely sounds like a great festival! But look at that view. I’m sorry, I love books and authors, but if give up the festival for that view. If that’s where you’re hiking, enjoy! And bring back lots of photos!
Yes, that’s where I’m hiking: Bryce Canyon in Utah. I will post photos. I’m taking along with me the detective in the crime novels I’m writing. I want to get to know her better. 🙂
That’s amazing Carol. Have a fantastic time. I look forward to seeing photos and hearing about it.
Great to know what they have in common, oh the sound of the Literature Brotherhood…
Best wishes Aquileana 🙂
Thanks…You were more than close…You were spot on. 🙂
Thanks for reading and commenting. I appreciate it.
Wish I could go… I’ve been to Niagara Falls a couple of times, but never ventured throughout Canada… On my bucket list… Take care, Lor
Thanks…Have a Happy Weekend. 🙂
I have heard of the phrase, gone fishing. Now we have, gone hiking! Enjoy yourself:)
Hey…that’s exactly what I was thinking about when I wrote Gone Hiking. In fact, I debating whether to put Gone Fishing instead.
Have a Great Weekend. 🙂
Wouldn’t I love to be there! Sounds fantastic – just what my “doctor ordered” for good entertainment and literary uplifting 😀
If you come, it would be my pleasure to show you a bit of my city. 🙂
Aw that would be nice … but sadly cannot get away 😦
I haven’t heard that word before–long-listed. I like it.
Happy Easter Carol! Hope your own writing is going well. I hope this comment goes through this time, 3rd try. 😦
Have fun hiking Carol!
Thank you, Ojima. I’ve been having trouble getting connected to your blog.
When I go to it I get this message under The Ramblings of a Dropout
4 out of 5 dentists recommend this WordPress.com site
Hope this gets fixed. 🙂
I hope so too. I don’t have a problem connecting though. Might be a WordPress problem.
Hi Carol. I’ve been able to sort out the problem with my blog. It’s a bit complicated though. To access the blog you can go to http://theramblingsofadropout.wordpress.com/ or http://aladiabalaka.com/. You can’t connect through the link on your ‘Blogs I Follow’ list on your homepage because that is linked to aladiabalaka.wordpress.com which I had to delete. Maybe you could update the list. I really hope I’m not getting you confused. Avoid clicking on the suggested links from your browser which are probably still linked to aladiabalaka.wordpress.com. Sorry for the trouble!
Oh my! What serious hiking territory. Have a wonderful time and I hope you get to know your character better. 🙂
This was a great feature that you presented the variety of authors at that festival. I was so taken by the photos that I forgot to comment, when I pushed like about a week or so ago! Smiles, Robin
Thanks, Robin. 🙂