Less than a month before the unveiling of the complete program for the Montreal Book Fair, the organization has announced the names of some of the authors expected at the Palais des congrès from November 27 to 1is December.
Posted at 3:14 a.m.
Updated at 9:30 a.m.
Alongside essential local writers like Dominique Fortier, Marie Laberge and Kev Lambert, Sébastien Dulude, Mélodie Joseph and Jean-Philippe Pleau, the American author Brigid Kemmerer, who writes for adolescents and young adults, as well as the French Mélissa Da Costa and Franck Thilliez will be at the event to meet readers and participate in discussions around literature.
Louisiana poet, artist and lyricist Melissa Bonin will also participate in various activities at the Salon as part of the very first Lafayette-Montreal cross-residency.
As for children’s authors, Alex A., Cara Carmina, Timothée de Fombelle and Renée Wilkin have also confirmed their presence.
“This year, in the programming, there is even more of a desire to affirm this openness to borders, to push them back, whether geographical borders, cultural borders that we have erected ourselves in our own culture, ideological borders or social borders,” underlined the general director of the Montreal Book Fair, Olivier Gougeon.
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The Montreal Book Fair will return to the Palais des congrès from November 27 to 1is December.
Several exhibitions will also be presented at the Salon, including Montréal Imaginaire, which will offer, in collaboration with the Montreal BD Festival, a tour of Montreal’s emblematic landscapes and places in comics. The artist Mathieu Laca will be the very first artist at the Galerie du Salon, where he will exhibit a collection of portraits of Quebec authors taken from his book Feather portraits. The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal will also present the Wall of Illustrators, where two illustrators from Italy (Francesca d’Alfonso and Felicita Sala) will create works live.
The Janette-Bertrand literary prize will be awarded for the first time this year, on November 27, while host Émilie Perreault will award – live from the Salon, during the radio show There will always be culture – the first new Radio-Canada Caroline Dawson literary prize, November 29.
Activities for all tastes
Thematic meeting places will welcome visitors like every year, whether it is the Zines Area, the Manga Zone, or the Indigenous Reading Area! (which is back after a year of absence), Studio Booktok or even My Little Cabin, for little ones.
The guest district for this edition of the Salon is Pointe-aux-Trembles, while the country in the spotlight is South Korea, where we will not only be able to discover its literature, but also learn the basics of its alphabet.
And to continue in this desire to give voice to the linguistic diversity of the city, the Salon will host the Read Quebec collective kiosk, where you can find the latest publications from local independent English-speaking publishers, such as Drawn & Quarterly, Metonymy Press or again Pow Pow Press. “In the years to come, we will work to continue building bridges with the populations of Montreal,” said Olivier Gougeon.
All this plurality, all this diversity, all these different meeting points with the world of books and reading in the broad sense mean that ultimately, the Salon is more and more a festival in the sense that, beyond going meeting the publishers, going to meet the authors, getting a book, there is a real experience to be had with the party side and the discovery side.
Olivier Gougeon, general director of the Montreal Book Fair
This 47e edition of the Montreal Book Fair will take reading enthusiasts on a journey through the theme of space-time from November 27 to 1is December at the Palais des congrès, and from November 15 in various districts of the metropolis with more than a hundred activities organized as part of the Salon dans la ville. The complete program for the Salon in the city will be announced on October 16, and that of the Salon at the Palais, on October 24.
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