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Tell Others

Kim Echlin in conversation with Evelyn C. White

Sunday, April 26
Doors at 3:30, 4pm to 5:30pm
The Carleton
$10.00

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In Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil, critically acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin examines how we turn to literature to measure our lives against the darknesses of our time. Tell Others explores how literature resists silencing and repression with truth and imagination. Evelyn C. White conducts this conversation.

Speakers

  • Kim Echlin is a Canadian novelist, translator, editor and teacher. She has written seven novels. She has lived and travelled around the world. The Disappeared was translated into 20 languages, won the Barnes and Noble prize and was short-listed for The Giller. Speak, Silence about woman and justice in the International Criminal Court won the City of Toronto Book award. Her new collection of essays, Tell Others, reflects on literature and witness. She is a board member of PEN International. Author proceeds for this book will be donated to PEN.

  • Halifax journalist Evelyn C. White is the author of Alice Walker: A Life. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she was honoured for her thesis on "The Racial Development of Blind Black Children."