Fall 1998

September 10-19: Human Rights

For 10 days, Ottawa was home to 60 selected authors from across Canada and around the world. We were proud to dedicate 1998's festivities to the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We firmly believe that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and human rights". This important occasion underlined the importance of the literary community in supporting, and in many cases leading, the struggle for fundamental freedoms.

The image on our Festival poster was a young monk from Burma, a begging bowl in hand.

For more information on the Declaration please visit Amnesty International and for more information on freedom of speech, feel free to visit PEN Canada.

authors

• Andre Alexis
• Anita Rau Badami
• Reza Baraheni
• Michelle Berry
• Dennis Bock
• Nicole Brossard
• Tony Burgess
• Marie-Claire Blais
• Wayson Choy
• Eliza Clark
• George Elliott Clarke
• Alan Clements
• Carol Corbeil
• Lynn Crosbie
• Alan Cumyn
• Cyril Dabydeen
• Michael Davitt
• Sarah Dearing
• Charles DeLint
• Theo Dorgan
• Jacques Flamand
• Charles Foran
• Elyse Goldstein
• Katherine Govier
• Barbara Gowdy
• Charlotte Gray
• Michael Harding
• Michael Helm
• Tomson Highway
• Lynn Johnston
• Terry Jordan
• Robert Kaplan
• Guy Gavriel Kay
• Dany Laferriere
• Mary-Jo Leddy
• Gerald Lynch
• Rabindranath Maharaj
• David McGimpsey
• Paula Meehan
• John Metcalf
• Keith Oatley
• Frank Ormsby
• Benjamin Pogrund
• B.W. Powe
• Stephane Psenak
• Jonathan Rabb
• Nino Ricci
• Leon Rooke
• Armand Ruffo
• Kerri Sakamoto
• Mairuth Sarsfield
• Gregory Scofield
• Goran Simic
• Peter Sirr
• Ann Stone
• Drew Hayden Taylor
• Michael Turner
• Sharon Helen Venne
• Rudy Weibe
• Murray Wilson
• Marnie Woodrow