WINNIPEG, MB – Internationally renowned and nominated author for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Annabel Lyon speaks on Contemporary Resonances from the Ancient World on campus on Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:00 pm in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, (515 Portage Ave). Lyon will discuss how she came to write The Golden Mean, and the eerie echoes she kept discovering between the ancient and contemporary worlds. This lecture is free and everyone is welcome.
Engaging
“Annabel Lyon is the celebrated author of The Golden Mean, a novel about the relationship between Aristotle and Alexander the Great set in the 4th Century BC,” explained Jane Cahill, UWinnipeg Chair of Classics. “This engaging talk is for anyone interested in history and the contemporary worlds. Annabel’s talk also touches on research that encompasses the Classical world, women’s literature, contemporary literature, the historical novel and the history of warfare.”
Lyon’s story collection, Oxygen, and book of novellas, The Best Thing for You, were published in Canada to wide acclaim. The Golden Mean, her first novel, is a Canadian best seller and is being published in six languages. It won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Lyon lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children.
This lecture is presented by UWinnipeg’s Department of Classics along with the Offices of the Vice-President (Research and International) and the Dean of Arts.
