When:
October 21, 2005 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Where:
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington
St., Ottawa, Ontario
Who:
Ottawa-based writer Camila Reimers
You are
cordially invited to the book launch of Hijos de Lava, the highly
anticipated debut novel of Ottawa-based writer Camila Reimers. Members
of Canada’s Latin America community are already hailing the
Spanish-language book as an artistic triumph.
“This author manifests a great ability to not only
describe us as people, but also to discover us,” said Claudio Durán, a
philosophy professor from York University. “From the strength of our
physical being, to the emotional twists that arise from our feelings of
both shame and spirituality.”
Born in the desert sands of Antofagasta, Chile, Reimers
immigrated to Canada on July 1, 1980. During the 1980s she lived in
various cities – Vancouver, Montreal, and Sudbury – before moving to
Ottawa in 1990.
The author of numerous short stories in Spanish, Reimers
has been published in Mexico, Uruguay and Canada. She recently won the
First prize Award “Building Bridges” organized by the University of
Toronto and Quebec University in Montreal.
Some of her stories also form part of the
Adrienne
project, which Governor General
Adrienne Clarkson dedicated to Chilean writers in Canada. These stories
can be found in public libraries in both Chile and Canada.
“I’m a Canadian citizen and I feel pretty much part of
this society but at the same time I’m an immigrant woman and it is
extremely important for me to be able to express myself in my own
language,” said Reimers, a graduate of both the University of British
Columbia and the University of Chile.
A reception and live music with Tito
Medina will follow the reading and panel.
www.artemapale.com/Camila_Reimers
