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Bookmarks Author Talk

An Hour with Catherine Hernandez

2023-05-29 19:00:00 2023-05-29 20:00:00 America/New_York Bookmarks Author Talk Meet Canada Reads and Queen's Reads author Catherine Hernandez for an online author chat! In the Community - Zoom A

Monday, May 29
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-05-29 19:00:00 2023-05-29 20:00:00 America/New_York Bookmarks Author Talk Meet Canada Reads and Queen's Reads author Catherine Hernandez for an online author chat! In the Community - Zoom A

Meet Canada Reads and Queen's Reads author Catherine Hernandez for an online author chat!

Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript and was a finalist for several awards including Canada Reads 2022.

She wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Scarborough, which was nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards and won 8 including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her second novel, Crosshairs, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and made the CBC's Best Canadian Fiction, NOW Magazine's 10 Best Books, Indigo Best Book, and NBC 20 Best LGBTQ Books list of 2020. Her third novel, The Story of Us, was published this year by HarperCollins Canada and was an instant bestseller. She is currently working on a few television projects and her fourth novel.

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | New Adults | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Culture & Heritage | Arts & Entertainment |

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