{"id":54366,"date":"2018-11-13T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=54366"},"modified":"2018-11-13T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T21:22:03","slug":"award-winning-italian-canadian-author-to-give-public-brock-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/11\/award-winning-italian-canadian-author-to-give-public-brock-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Italian-Canadian author to give public Brock talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Award-winning author Gianna Patriarca will speak at Brock Monday, Nov. 19 as part of the Italian Canadian Diaspora Speaker Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54369\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54369\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-54369\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gianna-Patriarca.jpg\" alt=\"Gianna Patriarca\" width=\"168\" height=\"194\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Gianna Patriarca will be speaking at Brock as part of the Italian Canadian Diaspora Speaker Series on Monday, Nov. 19.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patriarca has authored eight books of poetry, a children\u2019s book and a collection of short stories. Her work is taught at universities in Italy, Canada and the U.S., and has been adapted for Canadian stage and radio drama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During her talk at Brock, &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Voice in Three Languages,&#8221; s<\/span>he will speak about her multilingual writing experience. The public event begins\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at 5 p.m. in Plaza 600F.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patriarca is the first recipient of the Science and Culture Award from the Italian Chamber of Commerce, awarded in Rome in 2016, and received the Spirit of Ontario medal from the Congress of Italian Canadians in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her talk is being presented by the Centre for Canadian Studies and the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning author Gianna Patriarca will speak at Brock Monday, Nov. 19 as part of the Italian Canadian Diaspora Speaker Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,37],"tags":[7198,7199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54370,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366\/revisions\/54370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}