The Frye Festival
The Frye Festival, formerly known as the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, is a bilingual (French and English) literary festival held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada in April of each year. The Festival began in 2000 and is the only festival in the world to honour noted literary critic Herman Northrop Frye (1912–1991) who spent his formative years in Moncton, graduating from Aberdeen High School.
Invited participants of the Frye Festival include not only noted Frye scholars, such as Robert D. Denham, Alvin Lee, Michael Dolzani, Jean O'Grady, and Caterina Nella Cotrupi, but also top literary talent from around the world, as well as regional talent. Russell Banks, Marie-Claire Blais, Neil Bissoondath, Robert Bly, Patrick Chamoiseau, Catherine Cusset, John Dufresne, Richard Ford, Nikki Gemmell, Douglas Glover, Ursula Hegi, Nancy Huston, Witi Ihimaera, Dennis Lee, Alberto Manguel, Yann Martel, Nino Ricci, David Adams Richards, and Bernhard Schlink are among the authors to have appeared during the Festival.
The Frye Symposium Lecture and The Antonine Maillet - Northrop Frye Lecture
Two separate series of lectures take place during the Frye Festival. The Antonine Maillet - Northrop Frye Lecture began in 2006 with Neil Bissoondath, and has since been followed by David Adams Richards in 2007 and Alberto Manguel in 2008, Monique LaRue in 2009 and Noah Richler in 2010 and Margaret Atwood in 2011.
The Frye Symposium Lecture began during the first Festival and continues today. In 2000 David Staines delivered the lecture, followed by Branko Gorjup in 2001, Caterina Nella Cotrupi in 2002. In 2003 there were two Frye Symposium Lectures, one in English by Robert Denham and one in French by Naim Kattan. In 2004 there were also two lectures, both in English, one by John Ayre and one by Michael Dolzani. In 2005 there were two lectures, one by Alvin Lee and one by B. W. Powe. In 2006, the first year of the Maillet-Frye series, there was no Frye Symposium Lecture, but the lecture returned in 2007 when there were again two Frye Symposium Lectures, one by Jean O'Grady and one by Robert Denham. In 2008 there was one lecture, by Glenna Sloan.
The two lecture series are quite separate, with one featuring a well-known writer/thinker, and the other featuring a noted Frye scholar.
History of the Frye Festival
Although born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Northrop Frye was seven years old when his family moved to Moncton, New Brunswick. Frye became an accomplished author and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1951. He was named University Professor by the University of Toronto in 1967 and was Norton professor at Harvard University. In November 1990, at the invitation of Professor Serge Morin, Northrop Frye returned to Moncton to deliver the Pascal Poirier Lecture at the Université de Moncton. During his stay he had the chance to meet and talk with many Monctonians, and he was able to visit his old home and the grave of his mother in Elmwood Cemetery. 'They were two of the best days of my life,' he reported to fellow Monctonian, Reuben Cohen. The following year, after Frye's death in January 1991, The Northrop Frye Society hosted a gathering of Frye-ites, and John Ayre, Frye's biographer, delivered the Pascal Poirier Lecture.
In 1997 the City of Moncton, developed an Arts Policy which recommended that the city have a festival to honour Northrop Frye. In its first year more than 3,000 people attended the Festival. In 2011 more than 15,000 people attended. The Frye Festival has become one of the major literary events in Canada, and continues to grow every year. More than 350 award-winning authors, from every continent and recipients of almost every major international literary prize, have now attended the Festival. The Festival is the proud recipient of the 2005 Lieutenant-Governor’s Dialogue Award, the 2007 Éloize for Event of the Year, the 2009 TD Canada Trust Arts Organization of the Year by the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts, and the 2014 Commissioner of Official Language's Award of Excellence—Promotion of Linguistic Duality[1].
The Frye Festival is the largest literary happening in Atlantic Canada and is the only festival in the world to honour Northrop Frye.
Participating authors
The complete list of participating authors as of 2016:
- José Acquelin
- Emmanuel Adely
- Frank Adriano
- Christine Adjahi
- Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
- André Alexis
- Barry Jean Ancelet
- Marguerite Andersen
- Samuel Archibald
- Tammy Armstrong
- Marc Arseneau
- Mathieu Arsenault
- Guy Arsenault
- Margaret Atwood
- Donna Augustine
- John Ayre
- Joséphine Bacon
- Ian Balfour
- Russell Banks
- Francois Barcelo
- Jean Barbe
- Olivier Barrot
- Brian Bartlett
- Jean-Claude Bauer
- Nancy Bauer
- Marie-Noëlle Bayle
- Gwen Bear
- Shirley Bear
- Alain Beaulieu
- Jimmy Beaulieu
- Jean-François Beauchemin
- Deni Y. Béchard
- Andrea Beck
- Carolyn Beck
- Helaine Becker
- Peter Behrens
- Gerard Beirne
- Chedly Belkhodja
- Alain M. Bergeron
- Jacob Berkowitz
- Sophie Bérubé
- Guillaume Berwald
- Dave Bidini
- Sophie Bienvenu
- Lise Bissonnette
- Neil Bissoondath
- Joe Blades
- Marie-Claire Blais
- Louise Blouin
- Giles Blunt
- Robert Bly
- Christian Bok
- Paul Bossé
- Gérard Bouchard
- Denis Boucher
- Sophie Boucher
- Simon Boulerice
- Claudine Bourbonnais
- Édith Bourget
- Huguette Bourgeois
- Denise Brassard
- Catherine Briat
- Fanny Britt
- Yvon Brochu
- Ian Brown
- Heather Browne Prince
- Christian Brun
- Régis Brun
- Carol Bruneau
- Catherine Bush
- Sharon Butala
- Kristin Butcher
- Michelle Butler Hallett
- Laura Byrne Paquet
- Marie Cadieux
- Jonathan Campbell
- Katia Canciani
- Reynald Cantin
- Roch Carrier
- Arnaud Cathrine
- Laura Calder
- France Cayouette
- Patrick Chamoiseau
- Éric Charlebois
- Ann Charney
- Herménégilde Chiasson
- Lesley Choyce
- Michael Christie
- Joan Clark
- Austin Clarke
- George Elliott Clarke
- Deborah J. Clifton
- Lynn Coady
- Fred Cogswell
- Nancy Cohen
- Fredric Gary Comeau
- Germaine Comeau
- Marie-France Comeau
- Anne Compton
- Christy Ann Conlin
- Karen Connelly
- Geoffrey Cook
- Greg Cook
- Allan Cooper
- Kelly Cooper
- Ann Copeland
- Mary Costello
- Éric Cormier
- Caterina Nella Cotrupi
- Sonia Cotten
- Gil Courtemanche
- Arlette Cousture
- Gracia Couturier
- Beppi Crosariol
- Michael Crummey
- Phillip Crymble
- Alan Cumyn
- Herb Curtis
- Wayne Curtis
- Catherine Cusset
- Myriam Cyr
- Antonio D’Alfonso
- France Daigle
- Nicole Daigle
- Mary Dalton
- Jean-Paul Daoust
- Carole David
- Karen Lynn Davidson
- Lynn Davies
- Kwame Dawes
- Marq de Villiers
- Monique Deland
- Jean-Christophe Delmeule
- Charles Demers
- Dominique Demers
- Robert Denham
- Denise Desautels
- Patrice Desbiens
- Louise Desjardins
- Thierry Desjardins
- Rose Després
- Sylvie Desrosiers
- Hélène Destrempes
- Nuala ní Dhomhnaill
- Nicolas Dickner
- Robert Dickson
- Philippe Di Folco
- Sarah-Jane Doiron
- Richard Doiron
- Michael Dolzani
- Emma Donoghue
- Jeffery Donaldson
- Stewart Donovan
- Hélène Dorion
- Ann Dowsett Johnston
- John Doyle
- Sylvie Drapeau
- Véronique Drouin
- Jean-Pierre Dubé
- Alain Dubos
- Christiane Duchesne
- John Dufresne
- Rhéa Dufresne
- Daniel Dugas
- Marianne Dumas
- Marilyn Dumont
- Éric Dupont
- Chris Eaton
- Christine Eddie
- Wallace Edwards
- Bernice Eisenstein
- Jo-Anne Elder
- Elin Elgaard
- Françoise Enguehard
- Terry Fallis
- Cary Fagan
- Alain Farah
- Endre Farkas
- George Fetherling
- Nadine Fidji
- Louise Fiset
- Sheree Fitch
- Évelyne Foëx
- Charles Foran
- Michèle Forbes
- Richard Ford
- Léonard Forest
- Jean Fugère
- Caroline Fullerton
- Madeleine Gagnon
- Arianne Gagnon-Roy
- Mathieu Gallant
- Melvin Gallant
- Steven Galloway
- Philippe Garon
- Maurizio Gatti
- Marie-Louise Gay
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Nikki Gemmell
- Jian Ghomeshi
- Douglas Gibson
- Sharon Gibson Palermo
- Mylène Gilbert-Dumas
- Glen Robert Gill
- David Gilmour
- Rachna (Mara) Gilmore
- Charlotte Gingras
- Brigitte Giraud
- Douglas Glover
- Carlos Gomes
- Lian Goodall
- Branko Gorjup
- Gilles Gougeon
- Sue Goyette
- Wayne Grady
- Shauntay Grant
- François Gravel
- Annie Groovie
- Emma Haché
- Joyce Hackett
- Rawi Hage
- Louise Bernice Halfe
- Judith Hamel
- Louis Hamelin
- Ian Hamilton
- Don Hannah
- Hélène Harbec
- Doug Harris
- Brigitte Harrison
- Donald Harron
- Michael Happy
- Elizabeth Hay
- Ursula Hegi
- Laïla Héloua
- David Helwig
- Rainer Hempel
- Matthew Henderson
- Miranda Hill
- David Homel
- Nancy Huston
- Laurence Hutchman
- Joel Thomas Hynes
- Maureen Hynes
- Witi Ihimaera
- Monique Ilboudo
- Elisapie Isaac
- Patrick Isabelle
- Abria Iwasutiak
- D.D. Jackson
- Martine L. Jacquot
- Kirby Jambon
- Alexandre Jardin
- Heidi Jardine Stoddart
- Mark Anthony Jarman
- Alain Jaubert
- K.V. Johansen
- Wayne Johnston
- Susan Juby
- MC June
- Monique Juteau
- Jonathan Kaplansky
- Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
- Naïm Kattan
- Jamie Kennedy
- Yasmina Khadra
- Ross King
- Wendy Kitts
- Debra Komar
- Lynne Kositsky
- Marie Laberge
- Dany Laferrière
- Michèle Laframboise
- Robert Lalonde
- Ulysse Landry
- Krista Lane
- M. Travis Lane
- Patrick Lane
- Carole Glasser Langille
- Dominic Langlois
- Sophie Langlois
- Monique LaRue
- Martine Latulippe
- Charles Leblanc
- Daniel Omer LeBlanc
- Georgette LeBlanc
- Gérald Leblanc
- Raymond Guy LeBlanc
- Emerise LeBlanc-Nowlan
- Perrine LeBlanc
- Claude LeBouthillier
- Ross Leckie
- Rachel Leclerc
- Sandra LeCouteur
- Alvin Lee
- Dennis Lee
- Daniel Léger
- Diane Carmel Léger
- Dyane Léger
- Ronald Léger
- André Lemelen
- Richard Lemm
- Marilyn Lerch
- Catherine Leroux
- Gilles Leroy
- J. Roger Léveillé
- Mireille Levert
- Susanna Licheri
- Christopher Lirette
- Troy Little
- Lesley Livingston
- Douglas Lochhead
- David Lonergan
- Larry Lynch
- Annabel Lyon
- Alain Mabanckou
- Kathy Mac
- Anne Louise MacDonald
- Anne-Marie MacDonald
- David Macfarlane
- Linden MacIntyre
- John MacKenzie
- Brent MacLaine
- Alexander MacLeod
- Alistair MacLeod
- Sue MacLeod
- Matthew Magee
- Antonine Maillet
- Marguerite Maillet
- Kevin Major
- Sonya Malaborza
- Jocelyne Mallet-Parent
- Eduardo Manet
- Alberto Manguel
- Roberto Mann
- Guy Marchamps
- Véronique Marcotte
- Michèle Marineau
- Paul Marion
- Lindsay Marshall
- Catherine Anne Martin
- Raymond Martin
- Sandra Martin
- Monia Mazigh
- Sharon McCartney
- Elaine McCluskey
- Jennifer McGrath Kent
- Ami McKay
- Don McKay
- Darrah McKeon
- Phyllis McKinley
- Catherine McKinnon
- Wesley McNair
- Janet McNaughton
- Zakes Mda
- John Meagher
- Johanne Mercier
- Rita Mestokosho
- Sean Michaels
- Annie Michaud
- Mildred Milliea
- Allison Mitcham
- Shandi Mitchell
- Fereshteh Molavi
- Hélène Monette
- Lisa Moore
- Robert Moore
- Cindy Morais
- Donna Morrissey
- Wendy Morton
- André Muise
- Jenny Munday
- Cathy Brown Murphy
- George Murray
- Glenn Murray
- Riel Nason
- Derlemari Nébardoum
- Gitpu Nevin
- Glen Nichols
- Hope Nicholson
- Lorette Nobécourt
- Michel Noël
- Jean O'Grady
- Ruth Ohi
- Alix Ohlin
- Sara O'Leary
- Heather O’Neill
- Kenneth Oppel
- Albert Ostermaier
- Michèle Ouimet
- Ann-Maureen Owens
- Lucy Papineau
- Denise Paquette
- Daniel Paul
- Kathleen Peacock
- Stanley Péan
- Randy Pealstein
- Harvey Pekar
- Charles Pelletier
- Maryse Pelletier
- Pierre Raphaël Pelletier
- Bryan Perro
- Emily Pohl-Weary
- Marc Joseph Edgar Poirier
- Simone Poirier-Bures
- Daniel Poliquin
- Sharon Pollock
- Andrée Poulin
- B. W. Powe
- Beth Powning
- Bernard Pozier
- Marc Prescott
- Monique Proulx
- Stefan Psenak
- Theresia Quigley
- Michel Rabagliati
- Jean-Philippe Raîche
- Alain Raimbault
- Jacques Rancourt
- Robert Rayner
- Kathy Reichs
- Alice Anna Reese
- Nino Ricci
- Nancy Wilcox Richards
- Zachary Richard
- David Adams Richards
- CS Richardson
- Noah Richler
- Sylvie Roberge
- Gabriel Robichaud
- Eden Robinson
- Matt Robinson
- Rino Morin Rossignol
- Paul Roux
- Maryse Rouy
- Albert Roy
- André Roy
- Camilien Roy
- Christian Roy
- Phillip Roy
- Jean-Christophe Rufin
- Rodney Saint-Éloi
- Peter Sanger
- Jocelyne Saucier
- John Ralston Saul
- Michel Savard
- Jacques Savoie
- Paul Savoie
- Roméo Savoie
- Robert J. Sawyer
- Bernhard Schlink
- Anakana Schofield
- Jessica Scott Kerrin
- Olive Senior
- Gilbert Sewell
- Anne-Marie Sicotte
- Danielle Simard
- Merilyn Simonds
- Anne Simpson
- Yves Sioui-Durand
- Jeffrey Simpson
- Anne-Marie Sirois
- Johanna Skibsrud
- Arthur Slade
- Glenna Sloan
- Alison Smith
- Michael Smith
- Neil Smith
- Russell Smith
- Thomas R. Smith
- Serena Sock
- Karen Solie
- Linda Spalding
- Norbert Spitz
- Eva Stachniak
- David Staines
- Anthony A.C. Staples
- Andrew Steeves
- Mike Steeves
- Fred Stenson
- Craig Stephenson
- Geronimo Stilton
- Kay Stone
- Christiane St-Pierre
- Allan Stratton
- Alan Syliboy
- Jessica Tang
- Jeremy Tankard
- Ghislain Taschereau
- Michel Tétu
- Catherine Texier
- Mario Thériault
- Serge Patrice Thibodeau
- Michael Thorpe
- Harry Thurston
- Kim Thúy
- Miriam Toews
- Patrick Toner
- Susan Tooke
- Carole Tremblay
- Larry Tremblay
- Lise Tremblay
- Mara Tremblay
- Tony Tremblay
- Elise Turcotte
- Maxine Tynes
- Sylvia Tyson
- Jane Urquhart
- Hélène Vachon
- Francesca Valente
- Joe Velaidum
- Marie-Hélène Vézina
- Joe Vansickle
- Guillaume Vigneault
- Yolande Villemaire
- Eleanor Wachtel
- J.A. Wainwright
- Germaine Warkentin
- Lucy Waverman
- Ian Weir
- Alison Wearing
- Darryl Whetter
- Nancy Wilcox Richards
- Budge Wilson
- Jean Wilson
- Yvonne Wilson
- Martin Winckler
- Frieda Wishinsky
- Kathleen Winter
- Meg Wolitzer
- Natale Wynberg
- Peter Yan
- Jane Yealland
- Cybèle Young
- Nora Young
See also
References
- ↑ Fraser, Graham (2014-09-30). "Annual Report 2013–2014". Office of the Commissionner of Official Languages. Retrieved 2018-03-16.