Tuesday FEB 11
7.30p.m., Newcomer Learning Centre, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and
multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-four books of poetry, fiction
and books for children. His work includes many collaborations works with
writers as well as with other artforms. His latest books include A
Cemetery for Holes, a poetry collaboration with Tom Prime (Gordon
Hill, Fall 2019) and For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe:
New and Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco (Wolsak and Wynn, Fall
2019.) His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates (Random
House Canada) won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian
Jewish Literary Award (Fiction) and the Hamilton Book Award (Fiction). It was
also a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the
Scotiabank Giller Prize. A new
novel, Don’t Fence Me In will appear from Random House in
2021. Barwin has been Writer-in-Residence at several universities and public
libraries and is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto
(Scarborough Campus) as well as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He
lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com
