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March 10, 2016, 6:50 pm ASTLast Updated: March 10, 2016, 11:24 pm

Award-winning Canadian author Miriam Toews is delivering the fifth annual Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture at the University of King’s College this evening at 7:00 p.m.

Her talk is titled If We Are Not Immortal: A Short Talk on Love, Death and the Writing Life.

Signal reporter Sophie Allen-Barron is tweeting live from the event. Follow her tweets below.

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