Events
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September 26, 2019 - 12:15 pm
Nooner Past Event
Thin Air 2019The NoonerMillennium Library
Writers
Steven Price is the author of the novels, By Gaslight, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Into That Darkness. Also an acclaimed poet, he has written two award-winning poetry books: Anatomy of Keys, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award, and Omens in the Year of the Ox, winner of the ReLit Award. His latest novel is Lampedusa (McClelland & Stewart), the fictionalized story of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of Lampedusa, who, haunted by memories of Fascism and the war in the Sicily of the 1950s, struggles to complete Il Gattopardo, or The Leopard, one of the greatest works of 20th-century Italian fiction. Price lives in Victoria.