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Alan Bradley
AN AUTHOR IN PROFILE
» Thursday 19 March 2009 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing people and ideas featured in Okanagan ARTS. Join us for a
stimulating literary journey into the life and work of successful author Alan Bradley and his sensational new book Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
» $2 at the door. Refreshments are available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Author Reveals the Secret of His Success
It's been a meteoric rise for the Okanagan's newest international writing sensation. In the last six weeks Alan Bradley has grabbed national and international headlines for his latest work - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. And no wonder. Bradley broke the rules by writing a book that convinced his publisher to sign on a relative unknown for five books - before the first one even hit store shelves. Now publishers around the globe are clamouring to translate his book into everything from French to Hebrew.
But while stories about Bradley's meteoric rise rush through cyberspace, the man himself has been quietly making the rounds in his home community of Kelowna.
On Thursday, March 19th at 5 pm the ongoing weekly Okanagan Institute Express series at the Bohemian Café presents Alan Bradley: An Author in Profile. Mr Bradley will talk about his work, his route to success, and what he plans to do next. Mosaic Books will be there as well with copies of Bradley's books, which audience members can buy and have signed by the author.
The session will be a wonderful opportunity for local writers, readers, and anyone else interested in the literary arts to engage directly with a prominent writer and his creative process, and to enter more intimately into the world he has created - the world of Flavia, the novel's young English protagonist who discovers a dead body in her father's cucumber patch in 1950.
 Alan Bradley was born in Toronto and grew up in Cobourg, Ontario. He moved to Saskatoon to work as director of television engineering at the University where he remained for 25 years. During that time, he helped found the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. He wrote children's stories to national acclaim and his short stories were broadcast on CBC Radio.
But alongside the children's story writing, Bradley cultivated a keen interest in crime writing. A founding member of The Casebook of Saskatoon, he collaborated with Dr. William A.S. Sarjeant on the classic Ms. Holmes of Baker Street, which also attracted national media coverage.
Alan Bradley: An Author in Profile takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 82nd event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007. Express has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet and professor John Lent, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, community activist Don Elzer, dancer David LaHay, architect Jim Meiklejohn, culinary artist and writer Heidi Noble, broadcaster Marion Barschel and others from a wide range of creative fields.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE
Where Enquiring Minds Gather. Okanagan Institute at the Bohemian Café A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan Institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home. Express is sponsored in part by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Publishing, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna.
The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that have gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.
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