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An Evening with Shaena Lambert, Author of Petra: A NVDPL Book Club Title

 

Shaena Lambert is the author of 4 works of fiction: Petra, Oh, My Darling, Radiance and The Falling Woman. Her work has been published to critical acclaim in Canada, the UK and Germany and been nominated for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Award, the Evergreen Award, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Frank O'Connor Award for the Short Story. Her stories have been anthologized four times in Best Canadian Stories, and published in  many magazines including The Walrus, Ploughshares, and Zoetrope All Story.

 

Her most recent novel, Petra, was inspired by German activist and green party founder Petra Kelly who transformed environmental politics, only to find herself caught up in a triangle of love, jealousy and murder. Stephen Milder, in The Boston Review wrote: “As a work of historical fiction, Petra brings Kelly herself—and the radical green utopias she advocated—to the fore in a way that no biography or work of scholarship yet has.” Petra won the 2021 Ethel Wilson Award, for best work of fiction in BC and the Yukon, and was a CBC best book of the year.

 

 

With financial assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers' Union of Canada.

 

 

Please note that this session will take place over Zoom. You will need a microphone and speakers, or a headset, in order to take part in the session.

Registration required. Register online to receive a Zoom invite prior to the session. If you have any questions or concerns, please call 604-984-0286, ext. 8144.