![]() Ziya is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society Fellow. Ziya also served as host, writer, and director for the science series The Leading Edge and as a correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson on PBS. In Canada, Ziya hosted the CBC’s Emmy-nominated series ZeD, a pioneer of open source television, for which she received a Gemini Viewer’s Choice Award nomination. Before co-hosting Daily Planet, Ziya served as host and field producer for PBS’ national primetime series, Wired Science, produced in conjunction with Wired magazine. ![]() Award-winning broadcaster Ziya Tong is the author of The Reality Bubble, and the Vice Chair of WWF Canada.įor a decade, Ziya shared her love for wonder, science, and technology as the co-host of Daily Planet, Discovery Canada’s flagship science program until its final season in 2018. ![]()
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What really distinguishes Twisted Tales for me is the intelligent themes and investigations they pursue, and the high quality of the discussions they always stimulate. ‘Twisted Tales consistently produce well-organised events for writers and readers of horror. May Twisted Tales continue to grow and prosper! If you love the field, support them! I do.' - Ramsey Campbell ![]() I've been involved in quite a few of both and have found them hugely enjoyable and stimulating - I believe the audiences did as well. As well as putting on author readings and signings at bookshops it has expanded into organising larger events, bringing authors and critics together for discussions of the field. 'In the past few years Twisted Tales has become a major force in the promotion and appreciation of horror fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 18. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his being exiled by Tsar Alexander the First. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. A maternal great-grandfather was African-born general Abram Petrovich Gannibal. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. ![]() Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Sivakumar, who had previously been convicted for trying to smuggle someone into the UK in the boot of his car, was also arrested. The surveillance team was waiting for the plane when it returned to the country the next day. Investigators believe the men were in contact with an Albanian, known as Tim K, who arranged for the passengers to meet him in Belgium. Turchet had paid for the jet to be stored in a hangar before the flight on March 23. The NCA found he had worked with former pilot Turchet to rent the six-seater Piper Seneca for £1,500. Joking as he was arrested by officers, he said: “I normally get arrested for drugs, so it is a bit strange.” Styles, from Hertfordshire, was arrested at Deenethorpe Airfield near Corby, in Northamptonshire after flying a twin-engine plane to the airfield from Belgium with three men and a woman on board who were attempting to evade immigration checks. ![]() ![]() Richard Styles was arrested alongside Silvano Turchet and Vijayakumar Sivakumar after the National Crime Agency thwarted their plan in March last year. LONDON: A British pilot has been jailed for being involved in a plot to smuggle four Albanians from Belgium into Britain. ![]() ![]() During the period of time during which the book is set he describes a myriad of characters who all book a room at The Motherland Hotel. As a result he gets a wide array of guests that include visitors to the town, lovers having illicit affairs and prostitutes servicing their customers. Zeberjet’s hotel is in the Turkish town of Izmir near the railroad tracks and is not the highest end establishment in town. His hotel, handed down to him through generations of his maternal family, provides him all of the social outlet that he needs. ![]() It’s not that he hasn’t wanted to go outside, but it seems more the case that he just hasn’t been interested in the outside world. Zeberjet, the middle-aged man who is the main character of this novel, says a few times throughout his story that he is “neither dead nor alive.” Zeberjet works in the same hotel in which he was born and he rarely ventures outside of its walls. The book was published in the original Turkish in 1973 and this English version has been translated by Fred Stark. ![]() I received an advance review copy of this title from City Lights Publishing. ![]() ![]() Tell us a bit about your writing background. ![]() ![]() Downs Intellectual Freedom Award for the year 2000 in recognition of her efforts speaking out on “how to quietly, strongly, and successfully defend intellectual freedom on behalf of young readers.” This interview was conducted via email in June 2001. Garden was also the recipient of the Robert B. She also is the author of numerous other works, including DOVE AND SWORD: A NOVEL OF JOAN OF ARC (FSG, 1995), the MONSTER HUNTERS series, and a few additional horror books such as PRISONER OF VAMPIRES (FSG, 1985). More recent titles are THE YEAR THEY BURNED THE BOOKS (FSG, 1999) and HOLLY’S SECRET (FSG, 2000), a Lambda Book Award finalist for 2000 in the Children’s/YA category. Her titles include award-winners like ANNIE ON MY MIND (Sagebush, 1999)(rebinding) and GOOD MOON RISING (FSG, 1996). ![]() Nancy Garden is a well-known author of books for children and teenagers. ![]() ![]() I think The Times summed this book up the best as ‘Memorably rich and strange.’ I completely agree, the writing is lovely and memorable, but the subject and characters are very strange.It made me laugh, it made me re-read and it confused me – so it was quite the ride! I would recommend this to readers who like to be challenged, and to read writing that takes risks. Within this transitional state-called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo-a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. ![]() From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. ![]() |