The Ghosts of Europe
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
Anna Porter, co-founder of Key Porter Books, had been one of Canada’s most respected book publishers for 30 years. She is an Officer of The Order of Canada and has been awarded the Order of Ontario. Anna Porter’s most recent book is Kasztner’s Train, the True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust, winner of the 2007 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Award and of the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction. She has also written three novels: Hidden Agenda, Mortal Sins, and The Bookfair Murders – The Bookfair Murders was made into a feature film – and a memoir, The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies, All Ms Porter’s books have been published internationally and in several languages. She is currently working on a manuscript about central Europe twenty years after the collapse of its Communist regimes.
The title of the new work is THE GHOSTS OF EUROPE and Anna will be talking about her research and writing of the book, concentrating on Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the ghosts that haunt them.
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