The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival has added three remarkable Canadian voices to the Sept. 15 schedule.
Saleema Nawaz is the author of the short story collection Mother Superior, which was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Best First Book Prize. Her story My Three Girls won the Journey Prize in 2008. Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, she currently lives in Montreal, Quebec. Her first novel, Bone and Bread, was published by House of Anansi in March, 2013.
A nationally known food writer, cookbook author, broadcaster and teacher, Rose Murray has been published widely in magazines and Newspapers such as Canadian Living and the Globe and Mail and has appeared on many radio and television stations across the country including the CBC and CTV. She has been resident cook at Kitchener CTV for 30 years. Murray has authored 11 cookbooks; the most recent Canada’s Favourite Recipes (co-authored with Elizabeth Baird) with a reprint of her very first book, Canadian Christmas Cooking, appearing this fall.
Calgary writer Marcello Di Cintio’s first book, Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa, won the Henry Kriesel Award for Best First Book. His second book, Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran, won the Wilfred Eggleston Prize. He has also written for numerous magazines, journals, and Newspapers, including The Walrus, EnRoute, Geist, Reader’s Digest, Afar, and the Globe and Mail. His latest book is 2012’s celebrated Walls : Journeys Along The Barricades, which won the 2013 Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The jury statement described the book as, “beautifully written reportage…personal stories — gripping, haunting, humorous, and inspiring — of people living against walls around the world, from the “peaceline” of Belfast to l’Acadie fence of Montreal.”The book also won the 2013 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction and the 2013 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
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The full festival runs from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15. For information check out edenmillswritersfestival.ca.
