Dreams and utopias: it is under this theme that the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival will bring together next month, in the heart of the metropolis, more than 150 authors, poets and artists from here and elsewhere.
Marie Hélène Poitras, Catherine Leroux, Éric Chacour, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Rodney Saint-Éloi and Rita Mestokosho will be among the guests of this 26e edition which will be held from April 25 to 28. And among the foreign writers who will be visiting Montreal to take festival-goers on a journey include, among others, the Argentine novelist Mariana Enriquez, Paolo Giordano (Italy), Hervé Le Corre (France) and Brenda Navarro (Mexico).
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The Argentine novelist Mariana Enriquez (author of Our part of the night) will be one of the guests of this 26e edition of Blue Metropolis.
The literary journalist and radio presenter Eleanor Wachtel will inaugurate a new series of interviews as part of the festival, which will allow her to discuss her story with Sarah Polley in particular. Run towards danger. Literary performances will also be on the program to showcase poems like those of Juliana Léveillé-Trudel.
Blue Metropolis will also host the fifth meeting of the Parliament of French-speaking women writers with guests from Lebanon, Tunisia and the Ivory Coast who will discuss the fact of writing when you are a woman.
Several prizes will also be awarded during the event, including the Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize which will be awarded in partnership with the Indigenous Voices Award organization to the Wendat poet Jean Sioui.
Blue Metropolis has also not forgotten young people who will be able to choose from more than 70 activities in libraries or online.
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