Beyond the idealized notion of what fiction writing is and how it should function, there are authors who know how to get down "into the muck," as Lee Kvern notes in her Lit Wish List: Five Authors Who Make Her Want to Write (and Keep Writing), authors who get life—"from A to Z"—and can create compassion for even the most unsavoury characters, all while making the fiction feel plausible, as if it's actually happened.
In the video below, Lee Kvern introduces her latest novel, The Matter of Sylvie (Brindle & Glass, 2010), shortlisted for the Alberta Book Awards and longlisted for the ReLit Award, a true example in which life greets fiction via the writer's craft. Kvern also shares the five authors who first inspired her to write and continually inspire her to keep writing.
Lit Wish List: Five Authors Who Make Her Want to Write (and Keep Writing)
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Lee Kvern's novels Afterall and The Matter of Sylvie were nominated for the Alberta Book Awards, and The Matter of Sylvie was longlisted for the Relit Award. Kvern's short stories are also celebrated: "White" was the national winner of the CBC Literary Awards, "I May Have Known You" was nominated for the Howard 'O'Hagan Award, and "Detachment" was a finalist in The Malahat Review Open Season.
Her work has been produced for CBC Radio, and published in Event, Descant, and enRoute, and on Joyland.ca (New York) and Foundpress.com.
She's the Writer-in-Residence for the Canadian Authors Association, September 2012-May 2013.
Please visit her at www.leekvern.com.
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