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Chan, Marty
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Marty Chan (CAN) is a young adult author, playwright, humorist and a former CBC radio writer. His plays and television shows have been produced around the world. Chan’s first children’s’ book, The Mystery of the Frozen Brains won the 2005 City of Edmonton Book Prize. The sequel, The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul won the 2007 Willow Award. He is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library. Chan presents A Close Shave, the first book in the Barnabas Bigfoot Series. The series follows Barnabas, a young Sasquatch who is experiencing the normal pangs of growing up—except with more hair. WordFest alumnus 2006, 2008 |
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Chantler, Scott
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Scott Chantler (CAN) is the acclaimed cartoonist of the graphic novels Two Generals, Northwest Passage and the Three Thieves series. His books have been nominated for the Eisner Prize, the Harvey Prize and the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award. He is also a popular commercial illustrator whose clients have included McDonald’s, Reebok, Macy’s, Rogers, The New York Daily News, The National Post, The Toronto Star and Maclean’s. He presents The Sign of the Black Rock. |
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Clark, Brenda
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Brenda Clark (CAN) is the well-known illustrator of the Franklin the Turtle series. Clark has illustrated more than 30 Franklin titles and numerous activity books for the series. Other popular titles she has illustrated include, Sadie and the Snowman, Big Sarah’s Little Boots and the award-winning Little Fingerling. She also has illustrated for Chickadee magazine. The Franklin series has achieved worldwide success, with over 65 million books sold, over 100 titles in print and a hit television series and a generation of fans. The series celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. |
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Clarkson, Adrienne
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Adrienne Clarkson (CAN) became Canada’s 26th governor general in 1999 and served until September 2005. In her multifaceted career as an accomplished broadcaster and distinguished public servant she has received numerous prestigious awards and honorary degrees in Canada and abroad. In 2005, she founded The Institute for Canadian Citizenship. Clarkson’s newest book, Room for All of Us, explores the immigrant experience through some extraordinary people who have helped transform Canada – among them, a child survivor of the Holocaust who became one of Canada’s outstanding ambassadors, a Vietnamese boat person who is now an award-winning cinematographer, and two Calgarians, an Ismaili and a great Serbian writer. |
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Coady, Lynn
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Lynn Coady (CAN) is an award-winning fiction writer, playwright and essayist. Her first novel, Strange Heaven, garnered the Canadian Author’s Association/Air Canada Award for Best Writer Under Thirty, the Dartmouth Book Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was short-listed for a Governor General’s Literary Award. Her articles and reviews have been featured in many publications, including Saturday Night, This Magazine and Chatelaine. She has written several plays and contributes regularly to The Globe and Mail. Her latest novel is The Antagonist. WordFest alumna 2000 |
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Davis, Tanya
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Tanya Davis (CAN) is a poet and singer-songwriter. She is a two-time winner of the CBC National Poetry Face-Off as well as the Canadian Winner of the 2008 Mountain Stage New Song Contest. She burst onto the music scene in 2006 and has already released her third album. In 2009, she collaborated with independent filmmaker Andrea Dorfman to produce the video How to Be Alone. It has since been featured at numerous film festivals, including The Vancouver Film Fest, The Worldwide Short Film Festival and the Video Poetry Festival. The video became a viral hit, receiving over three million views on YouTube. Davis resides in Nova Scotia where she was recently named the Mayor’s Poet Laureate for Halifax. She presents At First, Lonely a book of poetry at WordFest. |
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Davis, Wade
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Wade Davis (CAN) is a world renowned author, anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker and photographer. His work took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of Haitian zombies, an assignment that led to his writing the bestseller Passage of Darkness and the critically acclaimed follow up The Serpent and the Rainbow. Davis’ research has been the subject of more than 800 media reports and interviews in Europe, North and South America and the Far East, and has inspired numerous documentary films as well as television series. Davis currently holds the post of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and divides his time between Washington, DC, and northern British Columbia. Davis presents Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory, And The Conquest Of Everest, a monumental work of history and adventure, ten years in the writing. |
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deWitt, Patrick
*Patrick deWitt is no longer able to attend WordFest.
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Patrick deWitt (CAN) is originally from Vancouver, but has lived in California, Washington and Oregon. He is the author of Ablutions and wrote the screenplay for Terri, a film released 2011. In his latest novel, The Sisters Brothers, deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. deWitt beautifully captures the humour, melancholy and grit of the Old West with two brothers bound by blood, violence and love. Film rights for The Sisters Brothers have been sold to a major production company and the novel has been shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. |
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Dickinson, Arlene
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Arlene Dickinson (CAN) is the CEO of one of Canada’s largest independently owned marketing firms Venture Communications, a co-star on CBC’s hit television series Dragons’ Den and is one of the country’s most sought-after female entrepreneurs. Dickinson is a recipient of the prestigious Pinnacle Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, has been named one of Chatelaine’s Top 100 Women Business Owners and has also been inducted into Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 Hall of Fame. In her first book Persuasion, she shares the tricks of her trade and insights from her own fascinating experiences with some of Canada’s leading companies. Dickinson explains how to master the art of persuasion, without an M.B.A., and how to achieve maximum success in business and in life. |
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Dodds, Jeramy
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Jeramy Dodds (CAN) is a poet and sometimes archaeologist whose work has taken him around the world from Iceland to Ontario. His poems have been translated into Finnish, French, Latvian, Hungarian, Swedish, German and Icelandic. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. His first collection of poems, Crabwise to the Hounds, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award and won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. The Calgary Distinguished Writers Program has named Jeramy Dodds the 2011 Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary. |
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