Public Lecture on Literature - Kathy Page

Kathy Page was born in London, and she now lives in British Columbia. She
is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada. She is a novelist and a
short.-story writer, and she has also written for television and radio. Her
fifth novel The Story of My Face was short-listed for the Orange Prize in
2002. Her sixth novel Alphabet was nominated for a Governor General's award
in 2005. Her next novel Find is forthcoming in 2010. Her short stories are
to be found in many anthologies. Two collections of short stories
have  appeared in Estonia titled „Vabaduse teine kevad“, 1996 and
„Vana siddalane“, 1994.Kathy Page received her MA in creative writing
from the University of East Anglia, UK. Since then she has taught fiction
and creative writing in several universities, community centres, writing
schools and arts organisations. During the Tallinn Summer School she will
teach a creative writing  course titled „Real and Imagined Lives:
Writing Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction, with author Kathy Page“. 
The course is about craft and technique of writing, as well as about the
process of writing. It will be a hands-on course, stimulating and
supportive to a future writer. At the same time it will also develop the
participants' English language skills.