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Saga Connections #2 Those Highly Creative Icelandic Canadians! with Bill Valgardson
February 3, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Join us for our second Saga Connections event — Monthly online seminars with extraordinary content!
Our second Saga Connections will be an intimate discussion with noted Icelandic Canadian author W.D. Valgardson. Bill will be discussing the many talented Icelandic Canadian fiction writers in Canada who have helped shape our collective feeling of community.
Event Synopsis:
We’re all aware of writing and how reading and writing were important in Iceland, where it helped literature replace some of those things that extreme poverty took away. There are all these stories about people in Iceland reading in the evening and so on, and learning to read and the use of homeschooling, etc.. And that didn’t get left behind in Iceland, it got transferred to Canada. And at one time there were more books published in Icelandic language in Winnipeg than there were in Iceland!
The people that came here may have been poverty stricken but they brought with them a tremendous love of literature. That is what this Saga Connections conversation is going to explore. Bill will talk about as many Icelandic Canadian writers of fiction as he can fit in. He will talk about fiction writers and people who wanted to find ways to tell stores they wanted to share.
Join us on Feb 3rd for this exciting opportunity to hear from one of our community’s leading fiction writers, to discuss this fascinating topic, share your stories of great books, and get a chance to ask Bill how he came up with some of his fascinating characters!
Join us for this Online webinar event through Zoom.
Ticket and registration: http://bit.ly/SAGA2ICCT
Tickets are $8 (with a $1.5 service fee to the 3rd party ticket agent) or FREE for ICCT members in good standing. Contact treasurer@icct.info to get your member promo code.
Find a reading list with material that Bill will touch on in his remarks HERE