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Twelve thousand dollars. That’s the budget the organizers of the first edition of the International Festival of Authors (or Harbourfront International Authors' Festival, as it was called then) had to work with in 1980 to showcase twenty-two writers of varying infamy. Capacity crowds throughout the six-day event proved to organizers and potential sponsors that Toronto could support a literary festival.
Book season is well and firmly upon us. Like the changing colours of the leaves and the rediscovery of the scarves in the back of your closet, the sudden surge of literary prizes and the annual return of the International Festival of Authors signal that autumn is decidedly here. And it makes sense, really: what better way to combat the chill than with a pile of books that keep you safely indoors?
WORDS: The winner of the 2009 Toronto Book Awards will be announced this evening by David Miller at the Toronto Reference Library awards gala. For a good overview of each of the five competing books, have a look at the City of Toronto’s Book Awards pages. The fifteen-thousand-dollar award is granted each year to the book with the most literary or artistic merit that best reflects Toronto. The five finalists were announced in a ceremony last week at the newly renovated Bloor/Gladstone library. Toronto Reference Library, Bram and Bluma Appel Salon (789 Yonge Street), 6 p.m., FREE.
TOURNAMENT: World Rock-Paper-Scissors Society originators Doug and Graham Walker have built an international event to celebrate this centuries-old decision-making process. Steam Whistle Brewing hosts the World Rock-Paper-Scissors Championship this evening, as competitors vie for a total of $13,000 in prize money. The Roundhouse (255 Bremner Boulevard), 8 p.m., $40 (competitors), $12 (spectators).
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