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Presentation of (Barrelhouse Kings) by Barry Callaghan (Cosmo Iannone Editore, 2009)
Barry Callaghan is a well-known novelist, poet, and man of letters who is included in every major Canadian anthology; his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages.
His works include The Black Queen Stories, The Way The Angel Spreads Her Wings, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still A Kiss, Barrelhouse Kings, Between Trains, and Beside Still Waters. He has published translations of French, Serbian, and Latvian poetry, and has been writer-in-residence at the universities of Rome, Venice, Bologna, and Mexico City.
He was a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa in the 70s, and at the same time began the internationally celebrated quarterly and press, Exile. For thirty-five years, he was a professor of contemporary literature at York University in Toronto, and is now Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar at that institution.
Callaghan has been awarded the Foundation For The Advancement of Canadian Letters award for fiction, the City of Toronto Award, seven National Magazine Awards, two President’s Medal Awards for Excellence (NMA), the ACTRA Award for television host of the year, the Pushcart, White, and Lowell Thomas Prizes in the U.S., and the inaugural W. O. Mitchell Award for a body of work. Callaghan has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the State University of New York and the University of Guelph.
Barrelhouse Kings (1998), is a fictional memoir about his father, writer Morley Callaghan, a friend in Parisian exile of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
The Toronto Star said, "Barrelhouse Kings is in the front rank of Canadian fiction. . .his best ever."
Giovanna Franci, Università di Bologna and Carla Plevano Pezzini will talk to the author about his work
This meeting has been organised in collaboration with the Centro di Studi Canadesi Alfredo Rizzardi
: Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, 40124 Bologna, 051 221249, info@italobritannica.com.
: Wednesday 13 May 2009 at 18.00
: Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35.
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