Prose in the Park Ottawa: April 2015

Tuesday 14 April 2015

Prose in the Park June 6 - Ottawa Launch of Ocular Proof by John Delacourt

Prose In The Park is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Ottawa launch of Toronto author John Delacourt's Ocular Proof, published by Seraphim Editions.

"Ocular Proof is an enormously courageous and imaginative undertaking, a most creative reflection on the complexity of creativity." - Modris Eksteins, author of Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age and Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty.

John Delacourt will be on hand to sign copies of the book at the panelists' tent.

Prose in the Park is Canada's newest literary festival and book fair. It takes place in Parkdale Park in Ottawa on June 6, 2015 from 11 am to 6 pm. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

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Thursday 9 April 2015

Denise Chong joins Prose in the Park in Ottawa on June 6

Denise Chong, one of Ottawa's most brilliant writers and Canada's finest minds, has just agreed to moderate the "Under the Papaya Tree - Remembering Vietnam" panel at Prose in the Park on June 6, 2015. Denise will take our panelists, Vincent Lam, Caroline Vu and David Joiner, on a journey through their motivations and personal connections with Vietnam and draw out the ongoing fascination that Canadian novelists and readers have with the Land of Ten Thousand Smiles.

Denise Chong is a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s literary award. She is the author of The Girl in the Picture about the Vietnam War and its most famous casualty, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, who ran, severely burned by napalm, from her blazing village into the eye of history. Denise is also known for her family memoir The Concubine’s Children, a Globe and Mail bestseller for 93 weeks. Described as “beautiful, haunting and wise” by the New York Times Book Review, it is now a Penguin Canada “Modern Classic.”