THIN AIR

In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.

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THE NOONER: Ron Charach

• Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street
• Carol Shields Auditorium

Poet Ron Charach tracks through the North End of his childhood and the tangles of cultural memory in Forgetting the Holocaust.

As a practicing psychiatrist, poet Ron Charach combines a physician’s candid eye for the foibles of the body with a psychiatrist’s compassion for the suffering of the mind. he was contributing editor of The Naked Physician, an anthology of poetry by Canadian medical practitioners, and has been published in national and international journals and anthologies of writing by doctors. As well as a collection of essays, Cowboys and Bleeding Hearts, Charach has published eight books of poetry, including Dungenessque, winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and his newest collection, Forgetting the Holocaust (Frontenac House). Charach grew up in Winnipeg and lives in Toronto.