BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250919T125646EDT-9528IloeNU@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250919T165646Z DESCRIPTION:This lecture is now full. Watch the live stream by clicking her e.\n\nThe Friends of the 51ԹLibrary in collaboration with Blue Metropo lis International Literary Festival are honoured to present award-winning Quebec author\, Louise Penny for the 2018 Hugh MacLennan Lecture.\n\n“Murd er for a Living” will explore the author's challenges and the choices invo lved in writing the Gamache series of mystery novels. \n\nMy books are abo ut terror. That brooding terror curled deep down inside us. But more than that\, more than murder\, more than all the rancid emotions and actions\, my books are about goodness. And kindness. About choices. About friendship and belonging. And love. Enduring love.\n\nIf you take only one thing awa y from any of my books I'd like it to be this:\n\nGoodness exists.                               \n\n- Louise Penny\n\nBooks will be available for pu rchase at the event.\n\nThe Hugh MacLennan Lecture is graciously sponsored by Donald Walcot.\n\n\nLouise Penny is the author of the #1 New York Time s and Globe and Mail bestselling series of thirteen Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels including Glass Houses (2017). Penny’s books have been pub lished in 30 countries and translated into 35 languages. Four million book s have been sold worldwide. Penny has won numerous awards\, including a CW A Dagger and the Agatha Award (six times)\, and was a finalist for the Edg ar Award for Best Novel. In 2017\, she received the Order of Canada and th e Ordre nationale du Québec for her contributions to Canadian and Quebec c ulture. Penny calls Knowlton\, Quebec home.\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, April 19  at 5:30pm\n\nWhere: New Residence Hall - Ballroom\, 51Թ\, 3 625 avenue du Parc\, Montreal\, QC H2X 3P8\n\n \n DTSTART:20180419T213000Z DTEND:20180419T230000Z LOCATION:Ballroom (Level C)\, New Residence Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H2X 3P8\, 3625 avenue du Parc SUMMARY:Hugh MacLennan Lecture | Murder for a Living | With acclaimed Quebe c author\, Louise Penny URL:/library-friends/channels/event/hugh-maclennan-lec ture-murder-living-acclaimed-quebec-author-louise-penny-285732 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR