![]() Hill’s nonfiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life, the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and the memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. His previous novels, Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood, became national bestsellers. Hill is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Book of Negroes, which was made into a six-part TV mini-series, and The Illegal, both of which won CBC Canada Reads. This fascinating conversation will include an audience Q&A. ![]() Hill and White will discuss literary censorship and how Hill attempted to come to terms with the book burners’ motives and complaints. Hill will talk about his book-length essay Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book, which arose out of a letter he received in 2011 from a man in the Netherlands who was reacting to Hill’s best-selling novel The Book of Negroes. ![]() The University of King’s College Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program is proud to sponsor the keynote lecture of the 2021 AfterWords Literary Festival featuring author Lawrence Hill in conversation with Evelyn C. ![]()
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