Award-winning author David Adams Richards will be reading at the Killam Memorial Library on Thurs., Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. The reading will take place in the Archives & Special Collections Reading Room on the fifth floor. This is a public reading and all are welcome.
David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards’ writing has been called “enigmatic and moving” (The Globe and Mail), and “strong and passionate” (Quill & Quire). Critics have said he has integrity, wit and acuity, while his voice has been called “powerful and necessary,” by the Ottawa Citizen.
His novels are set in the Miramichi River Valley, giving them a strong sense of place, while exploring universal themes such as family conflict, morality, economic class and community. “I think in a non-standard way I would consider myself a moral writer. I think what I tend to focus on is the motivations of characters and why things are done, that’s what I’m trying to get at,” said David Adams Richards in a June 2000 interview with Ray Robertson for Quill & Quire. While the tone of David Adams Richards’ work is generally dark, he says there is humour and hope in his work, too[i].
David Adams Richards is the author of novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, poetry and plays. He has won a number of prestigious awards, including the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction, the Norma Epstein Prize, the Canada-Australia Prize, the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-Language Literary Arts, the CBA Libris Award and the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Award. For his most recent book, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul, he won the 2012 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the most accomplished and acclaimed writers in Canada read from his own work. This reading is sponsored by Special Collections, Killam Library.
Some books by David Adams Richards from the Killam Library's collection.
[i] Robertson, Ray. “The Outsider.” Quill & Quire (June 2000)