PREVIEW
CANADA FBM2020’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GILLIAN FIZET
Canadian authors at FBF2021
Frankfurt Book Fair Special Guest of Honour: Canada
Canisia Lubrin One of Canada’s most fêted and prize- winning young poets, Lubrin has published two collections, 2017’s Voodoo Hypothesis and last year’s The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin was born and raised in St Lucia before moving and settling in Canada after studying at York University and the University of Guelph. Earlier this year, she was named poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart, the venerable indie which became a Penguin Random House Canada division a decade ago.
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Canada’s Guest of Honour time finally comes
The team behind the Canadian Guest of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair has had to be patient and nimble, but the nation’s time in the spotlight is finally upon us
Tom Tivnan @tomtivnan 04 1st October 2021 T
here has been a private joke among the team at Canada FBM2020—the organisation charged with representing the country’s publishing industry
for its Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour stint—that its social media hashtag should be #ForeverFrankfurt. If not forever, Canada’s time in the Buchmesse sun has been very long indeed, or at least longer than any other FBF guest. Canada’s scheduled 2020 slot was, of course, extended to 2021, with its participation last year limited by the pandemic to virtual events. And though there will be a Canada pavilion and a number of events “IRL” at this FBF—in addition to a raſt of online and hybrid physical/ digital sessions—this is hardly how organisers envisioned their time in the spotlight when they first inked the deal to be the Guest of Honour back in 2016. The drawnout feeling is perhaps exacerbated by the last 19 months of almost everyday unpredictabilit, says Gillian Fizet, Canada FBM2020 executive director. She explains: “At the beginning of 2020 we had our pavilion concept ready, everything was ready to go. Then at the start of the pandemic there was a lot of uncertaint about what was going to happen at the 2020 fair, then there was uncertaint for about six to eight months where we didn’t even know if we’d be postponed to 2021. So essentially,
Kim Thuy Thuy was born in Vietnam and fled with her family following the fall of Saigon, settling in Montreal. After studying linguis- tics, Thuy worked as an interpreter and translator, and as a restaurateur, opening one of Montreal’s first Vietnamese restaurants. Her award-winning début, French-language Ru (2009), is a semi- autobiographical novel about her immigrant experience. Em (2020) is about a boy living on the streets of Saigon who cares for an abandoned baby of an American soldier.
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