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Events February 9 - Book Lover’s Ball, The Royal York, Toronto February 16 - Reading - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY February 29 - March 3 - Panel - AWP, Chicago, IL. There Will Be Blood: Writing Violence in Fiction, with Alan Heathcock, Antonya Nelson, Ben Percy, and Alexi Zentner May 2 - Reading - WORD bookstore, Brooklyn, NY @ 7 p.m. With Haley Tanner. June 19 - Teaching / Reading - Rutgers-Camden Summer Writers' Conference
News Touch is shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada’s oldest literary prize Touch was longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Le Monde says: “Ce premier roman d'Alexi Zentner est d'une effrayante beauté.” Touch is shortlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2011 Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The CBC named Alexi as one of “12 Canadian Writers to Watch,” and called Touch, “a haunting multi-generational story with mythical overtones, reminiscent of the work of Canadian literary great Joseph Boyden.” PEOPLE Magazine calls Touch a “breathtaking debut.” Mclean’s Magazine compares Alexi to a Greek god and says “there isn’t a weak sentence in the book.” The National Post profiles Alexi and says Touch is “an arresting debut novel that will likely be in contention for some major prizes.” |
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