Winter’s Tales Authors’ Reading Series presents Camilla Gibb
Camilla Gibb is the author of four internationally acclaimed novels: The Beauty of Humanity Movement, Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life, and Sweetness in the Belly. About Gibb’s new memoir, This Is Happy, actor and director Sarah Polley said, “This Is Happy broke me, lifted me up and filled me. I can't remember the last time I read something so honest, tender, brutal and kind.”
This gifted storyteller will read from her new work in a Winter’s Tales presentation on Tuesday, October 11, at 7:30 pm in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building. A reception and book signing will follow.
Reviews of Gibb’s fiction speak of her “flowing and confident storytelling,” her “amazing ability to inhabit the headspace of people of other cultures living in different times,” and of how her “prose is elegant and sings.”
She has received the Trillium Book Award (for best book in Ontario) and the City of Toronto Book Award, and has been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and 2016 RBC Taylor Prize. Gibb is an adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Guelph-Humber and the University of Toronto, and is currently the June Callwood Professor in Social Justice at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
Winter’s Tales is sponsored by the UPEI English Department, Faculty of Arts, and Vice-President Academic and Research, with funding from The Canada Council for the Arts.
The University of Prince Edward Island prides itself on people, excellence, and impact and is committed to assisting students reach their full potential in both the classroom and community. With roots stemming from two founding institutions—Prince of Wales College and Saint Dunstan’s University—UPEI has a reputation for academic excellence, research innovation, and creating positive impacts locally, nationally, and internationally. UPEI is the only degree granting institution in the province and is proud to be a key contributor to the growth and prosperity of Prince Edward Island.
