Blue Met announces its 2016 Festival lineup in Montreal

This morning we announce our entire 2016 lineup for the Blue Met 2016 Festival and wow are we excited! For one thing, an amazing roster of Canadian and international writers are here for the seven days of the Festival, but particularly from Wednesday, April 13 to Sunday, April 17 when the majority of our events take place. Highlights include:

• Anne Carson, winner of our 2016 Blue Metropolis Grand Literary Prix.
• Thomas King, winner of our 2016 Blue Met First Peoples Literary Prize.
• Valeria Luiselli, winner of our 2016 Premio Metropolis Azul.
• Abdourahman Waberi, winner of our 2016 Words to Change Prize.
• Ghayas Hachem, winner of our 2016 Conseil des arts de Montreal Diversity Prize.

Also coming in 2016: 

• Joseph Boyden, The Orenda, on the publication of his books into French
• Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a First
• Carmen Aguirre, Canada Reads Winner launches her new book Mexican Hooker #1
• Daniel Tammet, Autistic savant and linguistic & mathematical genius
• Bernard Werber, one of the Francophone world's biggest names, on the launch of his new book
• Richard Blanco, American poet and author of Obama's inauguration poem and author of a new memoir about growing up gay in Miami in the 1980s
• Agata Tuszynska, Polish journalist and novelist, short-listed for France's Prix Femina for her novel La Fiancee de Bruno Schulz
• Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and a new biography of Gore Vidal
• Pierre Simenon, author of the memoir, De père à père, and the son of famed Maigret creator, Georges Simenon
• This Really Happened 2016, our online storytelling event
• Ayelet Tsabari, Israeli/Canadian author of the new collection, The Best Place on Earth
• Series on Irish writers (including Danielle McLaughlin, Sara Baume, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Paul Lynch)
• The return of our Translation Slam
• A series at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal (MAC)
• The Walrus Talks on Resilience
• Books, Body and Soul with events on health, healing, spirituality, throughout greater Montreal

The entire 2016 program is online now: check it out and get your tickets soon! The Festival runs April 11 to 17 at Hotel 10 downtown. More than half of our events are free; ticketed events range from $5 to $17.