Speakers
Kathleen Winter(凯瑟琳•温特) Kathleen Winter is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist. Kathleen began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street before becoming a columnist for The Telegram in St. John’s. Her debut short story collection, boYs, was published in 2007 and won that year's Winterset Award and Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her novel Annabel was published in 2010, and won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. It was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General’s Award. It held the distinction of being the only novel to make the short list of all three awards in 2010. In 2011 it was shortlisted for the 2011Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2014 it was chosen for the Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by actress Sarah Gadon. A second book of short stories, The Freedom in American Songs, was released in 2014, along with a nonfiction book entitled Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage. Boundless was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. She is a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. This fall Knopf will publish her novel Lost in September based on letters of General James Wolfe to his mother. |
Speakers: (in alphabetic order)
Stefen Chow(赵峰) | Arpita Das(爱碧塔 • 达丝) | Katharina Ewald(卡特琳娜 • 爱娃特) | Isabelle Fauvel(伊莎贝尔 • 法薇尔) | Sven Hänke(斯文 • 汉克) | Hou Mingliang(侯明亮) | Jiang Feng(姜峰) | Alvin Juban(阿尔文 • 友班) | Lu Jun(卢俊) | Miao Wei(苗炜) | Thomas Minkus(托马斯 · 明库斯) | Michael Neugebauer(迈克尔 • 诺伊格鲍尔) | Stephan Orth(史蒂芬 • 奥特) | Ahmed Rashad(艾哈迈德 • 拉什) | Robert Sawyer(罗伯特•索耶) | Geoffrey Taylor(杰弗瑞•泰勒) | Tian Feng(田丰) | Kathleen Winter(凯瑟琳•温特) | Yang Wenxuan(杨文轩) | Yao Wentan(姚文坛) | Zeng Zirong(曾孜荣) | Zhu Ying(朱影) | Zhu Yingchun(朱赢椿)