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Audio Archives

Photo credit: Tim Matheson 2009 The VIWF presents audio archives of Festival events with Canadian and international writers. Each event listed below has a short ‘teaser’ clip you can listen to for a taste of the full recording. Click on the Listen to the Full Recording >> next to each event for the full audio segment and to read more about the event and the writer.

A new archive recording will be added each week leading up to the 2010 Vancouver International Writers Festival in October. Please check back regularly to listen to highlights of Festivals-past.

Listing of Audio Archives available:

Maile Meloy

Picking up hitchhikers is risky any time, no less on a snowy evening when your passengers turn out to be named Bonnie and Clyde.

Recorded at The Vancouver International Writers Festival’s Sunday Brunch on October 25, 2009

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Iconoclasts in Conversation: Douglas Coupland & Irvine Welsh

A rare, rock star combination takes the stage.

Recorded at the Vancouver International Writers Festival on October 23, 2003

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Lorna Crozier in Conversation with Hal Wake

One of Canada's finest poets talks about her work straight from the heart.

Recorded in the summer of 1999, in Lorna Crozier’s backyard

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Playing with Real People - Kate Braid, Annabel Lyon & Thomas Trofimuk

Putting words in the mouths of great philosophers, explorers and musicians is no easy task. Find out how these three authors meet the challenge.

Recorded at The Vancouver International Writers Festival on October 23, 2009

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Patricia Young

Travel back in time to the mid-sixties, the height of Beatlemania, with Patricia Young.

Recorded at The Vancouver International Writers Festival’s Sunday Brunch on October 22, 2006

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The Library at Night: Alberto Manguel in Conversation with Hal Wake

Renowned bibliophile Alberto Manguel renovated a medieval presbytery in France to house his collection of more than 30,000 books. This interview tells the story of his library and many more past and present.

Recorded at the Vancouver International Writers Festival on October 21, 2006

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Richardson’s Roundup: Karen Connelly, Lorna Crozier & Brian Brett

Salt Spring Island, Burma and Saskatchewan. These places are at the heart of three works on non-fiction by Canadian authors interviewed by the estimable Bill Richardson.

Recorded at The Vancouver International Writers Festival on October 23, 2009

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Dennis Bock

The celebrated author of the Ash Garden reads a selection from The Communist's Daughter a novel based on the legendary Dr. Norman Bethune.

Recorded at The Vancouver International Writers Festival’s Sunday Brunch on October 22, 2006

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True North: Robert Arthur Alexie & Cathleen With

Robert Arthur Alexie and Cathleen With talk with Joseph Boyden about their novels, both of which paint dark and realistic portraits of damaged people in Canada's North.

Recorded at The Vancouver International Writers Festival on October 24, 2009

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Pauline Holdstock: Live to Air with Bill Richardson

Join Pauline Holdstock and Bill Richardson for a glass of champagne (or two?) and some equally effervescent conversation.

Recorded at the Vancouver International Writers Festival on October 21, 2004

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