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Bookends by FFWD Staff This week, enter a fictional universe at the local university. This year’s Nobel Prize Lecture on Tin Drum author Günter Grass takes place Monday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nickle Arts Museum. Dr. Patrick O’Neill of Queen’s University will speak on "History, Politics and the Literary Text: The Fictional Universe of Günter Grass." There’s a reception after, and info is available at 220-5044. Grass’s current book, My Century, is about his own non-fictional universe, especially his experience as a correspondent during the Second World War. It’s 18 years now that the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta have jointly offered the Alberta Literary Awards. This year there are 90 writers competing for the seven awards, and most of them (39) are from Edmonton, but 35 Calgarians are in the running, too. The awards ceremony will be held in Calgary after the finalists are announced early in April – details to come later. Local candidates for the Henry Kreisel First Book Award include Calgarians Audrey Andrews for Be Good Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie; Barbara Scott for The Quick; Catherine Simmons Niven for A Fine Daughter; and, of course, James Martin for Calgary: Secrets of the City. Owl’s Nest Books co-sponsors that award along with Greenwoods’ Bookshoppe in Edmonton. Elizabeth Haynes’s Speak Mandarin Not Dialect is up for the Chapters-sponsored Howard O’Hagan Short Fiction Award. Contenders for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, sponsored by Alberta Views Magazine, are: Eugene Stickland for Two Plays, Clem Martini for Illegal Entry, and Greg Nelson for Speak. Next week: the novel, children’s literature, non-fiction and poetry category nominees.

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