International Readings at Harbourfront - Simon Armitage, Hermione Lee, Mark McNay, Anchee Min April 18, 2007

Hermione Lee, Mark McNay and Anchee Min present their latest works. Zoe Whittall hosts.

Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage has published ten volumes of poetry, for which he has won numerous awards, including the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year and the Eric Gregory Award, in addition to being shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award (for The Dead Sea Poems).He is the author of the bestselling prose memoir All Points North and the novels Little Green Man and The White Stuff. Armitage lives in West Yorkshire, UK.

Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee is a Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, Oxford, and is also a regular reviewer for various newspapers and magazines, including the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. Lee is the author of The Novels of Virginia Woolf , Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up and the editor of an anthology of women's short stories, The Secret Self: Short Stories by Women.

Mark McNay
Mark McNay was born in 1965 and brought up in a mining village in central Scotland. In 2003, he graduated with distinction from the University of East Anglia creative writing course.Mark recently won the Arts Foundation prize for New Fiction for Fresh.

Anchee Min
Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957, and at seventeen was sent to a Communist labour farm to work. After three years on the farm, she was recruited for the lead role in Madame Mao’s propaganda films. When Madame Mao was denounced for murdering her husband—a crime she did not commit—and sentenced to death shortly after Mao’s funeral, Min was declared one of her followers by the new regime. As punishment she was ordered back to the labour farm and then to work as a set clerk at the Shanghai Film Studio, a sentence that lasted for eight years. She came to the United States in 1984 with the help of actress Joan Chen.

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