creative writing videoconference
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Creative Writing videoconference. www.elainekalmannaves.com. with award winning author Elaine Kalman Naves. In partnership with:. Community Learning Centers of Quebec The Learning Exchange Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network Project funding courtesy of Canadian Heritage. About Me…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Creative Writingvideoconference
with award winning author
Elaine Kalman Naveswww.elainekalmannaves.com
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In partnership with:• Community Learning Centers of Quebec• The Learning Exchange• Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network
Project funding courtesy of Canadian Heritage
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About Me…• As a child in
Budapest, I loved books. • In my English school
uniform, and as always with a book nearby.
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Journey to Vaja:
Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family
Winner: 1998 Elie Wiesel Prize for Holocaust Literature Finalist: 1997 QSPELL Prize for Non-Ficition
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Shoshanna's Story:
A Mother, a Daughter, and the Shadows of History
Winner: 2005 Canadian Jewish Book Awards Yad Vashem Prize for Holocaust LiteratureWinner: 2003 Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionNamed one of the best books of 2003 by the Montreal Gazette
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Writers of Montreal
Celebrates the literary heritage of Emile Nelligan, Stephen Leacock, Gabrielle Roy, Hubert Aquin, F.R. Scott, Yves Theriault, and Hugh MacLennan.
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Putting Down Roots:
Montreal's Immigrant Writers
Winner: 1999 QSPELL Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
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Storied Streets:
Montreal in the Literary Imagination
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Robert Weaver: • Godfather of
Canadian Literature
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MY NAME •In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.
by Sandra CisnerosFrom: The House on Mango Street
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MY NAME
• It was my great-grandmother’s name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse-which is supposed to be bad luck if you’re born female-but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don’t like their women strong.
by Sandra CisnerosFrom: The House on Mango Street
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MY NAME
• My great-grandmother. I would’ve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn’t marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That’s the way he did it.
by Sandra CisnerosFrom: The House on Mango Street
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MY NAME
•And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.
by Sandra CisnerosFrom: The House on Mango Street
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MY NAME
• At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as sister’s name-Magdalena-which is uglier than mine. Magdalena who at least can come home and become Nenny. But I am always Esperanza.
by Sandra CisnerosFrom: The House on Mango Street
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MY NAME
• I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees. Esperanza as Lisandra or Maritza or Zeze the X. Yes. Something lke Zeze the X will do.
by Sandra CisnerosFrom: The House on Mango Street
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Creative Writingvideoconference
with award winning author
Elaine Kalman Naveswww.elainekalmannaves.com