Dinner with "Partners in Crime" - Robert Majzels & Claire Huot February 20, 2008

In our series of "behind the scenes evenings" we will host an informal dinner with two canadian crime writers / Lecturers / performance artists this week:

Robert Majzels:
He is an experimental writer who has published 4 novels, 1 play and several translations which have won prizes, including the Governor-General's Award for the translation of French-Canadian novelist, France Daigle. His last novel, THE HUMBUGS DIET, is a philosophical detective story set in an old folks home in Yonkers, New York. Robert is currently associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. He was born in Montréal and is the son of Holocaust survivors.

Claire Huot bout herself:
I have just published THE PRISON TANGRAM, a detective novel set in Burlington, Vermont; in a reform campus-style prison for women. My detective is, like me, trilingual --English, French, and Mandarin Chinese. My novel is presently #1 bestseller at Pages in Kensington. I'm a sinologist who specializes in contemporary Chinese culture. I'm currently teaching China-related courses at the Unversity of Calgary.

LINKS:

See the award winning limited edition of Apikoros Sleuth, a murder mystery in the form of a Talmudic inquiry, by Robert Majzels

Blog: 285 Bungalow Drive
Publisher: Mercury Press

We will charge 6 Euro for the evening which includes dinner. Alan will make a combination of duck, goose and chicken, a variety of vegetarian dishes and more. The menue will be posted here soon.

Friday 22nd: Claire Hout & Robert Mazjels - Reading at Wonderbar, Berlin

Saturday 23rd: Claire Hout & Robert Mazjels - Reading at East of Eden

Official Website: http://madscience.antville.org/stories/1762210/