Eden Robinson: From Storytelling to Screen

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Go behind the scenes with Eden Robinson as she discusses her writing journey and what it was like to watch her stories make the leap from page to screen. She’ll talk about the exciting process of turning her second book, Monkey Beach, into a movie, and how Son of a Trickster became a TV series on CBC and the CW.

Eden will also talk about the path that led her to writing, the people who encouraged her along the way, and why she chose to set so much of her work in her small home community. She’ll explore the mix of place, family, humour, and lived experience that gives her stories their unmistakable voice.

A book signing will follow the talk.

Eden Robinson is an award-winning Indigenous writer from Canada. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Eden is the author of the short story collection Traplines (1995). Traplines won the Winifred Holtby Prize for best first work of fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book. Her second book Monkey Beach (2000), a novel, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Monkey Beach was awarded with the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Eden’s third novel, Blood Sports, was published in 2006 and revisits characters from Traplines.

Eden recently finished writing the Trickster-trilogy: Son of a Trickster (2017), Trickster Drift (2018) and, Return of the Trickster (2021) all published by Knopf Canada. Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Moreover, Son of a Trickster was a finalist of the 2020 edition of Canada Reads. Trickster Drift won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2019.

In addition, Eden’s work has been adapted to the screen. Son of a Trickster is adapted into a television series called Trickster and ran on CBC Television and the CW in 2020. Her novel, Monkey Beach has been turned into a film of the same name. The film Monkey Beach is directed by Loretta Todd and premiered at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival in September 2020.

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