David Helwig Signing
About About Love:
Written in France toward the end of his career, these stories are Chekhov’s only attempt at the linked collection. The first is a grotesque Gogolian comedy; the second a narrator’s impassioned response; and the third a poignant story of failed love. Translated by the impeccable David Helwig and fabulously illustrated by Seth, Three Stories is essential for any Chekhov enthusiast.
About David Helwig:
David Helwig was born in Toronto in 1938 and lived there for most of his first ten years, then moved with his parents to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario where his father ran a small business repairing and refinishing furniture and buying and selling antiques. He attended the University of Toronto and the University of Liverpool. His first daughter was born in England and the second in Kingston where he taught at Queen’s University. He published his first stories, in Canadian Forum and The Montrealer, while still an undergraduate. For two summers he worked in summer stock with the Straw Hat Players, mostly as a business manager and technician, working with such actors as Gordon Pinsent, Jackie Burroughs, William B. Davis and Timothy Findley.
While he taught at Queen’s University, he did some informal teaching in Collins Bay Penitentiary and he wrote A Book about Billie with a former inmate. In 1974, John Hirsch hired him as literary manager of CBC television drama, and he spent two years in this position, supervising the work of story editors and the department’s relations with writers. From 1976 to 1980, he taught part time at Queen’s while doing a great deal of freelance work, and in 1980, he gave up teaching and became a full-time freelance writer.
He has from the beginning written both fiction and poetry as well as a wide range of radio, televison and journalism.
He currently lives in an old house in the village of Eldon in Prince Edward Island.
Time: Friday, December 7th @ 4p
Location: Bookmark, 172 Queen St.
Admission: Free
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