The Michael Ondaatje Reading Series presents Greg Hollingshead

When:
October 6, 2015 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
2015-10-06T16:30:00-04:00
2015-10-06T18:00:00-04:00
Where:
Glendon Campus York University
Senior Common Room
Contact:
416-7362100 ext 88175

Greg Hollingshead

Greg Hollingshead has published three novels and three story collections. His
collection The Roaring Girl won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His
novel The Healer won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was
shortlisted for the Giller Prize. His novel Bedlam was a Globe and Mail 100
Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice.

Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and former Chair of the
Writers’ Union of Canada, Greg has received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
Gold Medal for Excellence in the Arts and is a Member of the Order of Canada.

He lives in Toronto with his wife Rosa Spricer. Greg will be reading from his
new story collection, Act Normal.