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LitFest Presents: In Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt

Oct

20

LitFest Presents: In Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt

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Tue, October 20, 2020

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM MDT

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In conversation with the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize, Billy-Ray Belcourt.

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The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize, Billy-Ray Belcourt mines his personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be in his debut memoir, A History of My Brief Body. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place.

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Billy-Ray Belcourt (he/him) is a poet, author, and scholar from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for his debut collection,This Wound Is a World, which was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. Belcourt is a recipient of the prestigious Rhodes scholarship and an Indspire Award, the highest honour the Indigenous community bestows on its leaders. He is currently working on his PhD at the University of Alberta and will join UBC's Creative Writing Program as an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Creative Writing in January 2020.

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