CKCU Literary News
Wednesday November 20th, 2024 with Hans G. Ruprecht
Acclaimed journalist and award-winning author Carol Off talking about her new book AT A LOSS FOR WORDS Conversation in an Age of Rage (Random House Canada 2024) with journalist Adrian Harewood at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, Fall 2024.

CAROL OFF spent almost sixteen years co-hosting the multi-award-winning CBC radio program, As It Happens. Before that, she covered news and current affairs in Canada and around the world. As a radio correspondent, she reported on politics in Ottawa and Quebec. As a television journalist, she covered the break-up of Yugoslavia; the 9/11 attack on the United States; the election of Vladimir Putin; and politics, conflicts and culture throughout Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Africa. Her first bestselling book, The Lion, The Fox and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, was published in 2000. Since then, she’s written three more award-winning works of narrative non-fiction, including, most recently, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others, winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Source https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/22670/carol-off