KEYNOTE ADDRESS + BOOKSIGNING | ENGLISH ONLY | CS Richardson’s novel, “All the Colour in the World,” was shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
CS Richardson’s first novel...
KEYNOTE ADDRESS + BOOKSIGNING | ENGLISH ONLY | CS Richardson’s novel, “All the Colour in the World,” was shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
CS Richardson’s first novel, The End of the Alphabet, was an international bestseller, published in fourteen countries and ten languages, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean). His second novel, The Emperor of Paris, was a national bestseller, named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. An award-winning book designer, CS Richardson worked in publishing for forty years. He is a multiple recipient of the Alcuin Award, Canada’s highest honour for excellence in book design. He lives and writes in Toronto.
2023 Jury Citation: All the Colour in the World
“With stunning restraint and pathos, CS Richardson has given us a portrait of one man’s journey of the soul — across decades and continents, through loss and grief and hope. Both sweeping and minimalist, All the Colour in the World is Woolfian in its brushstrokes. Quiet moments of being are given as much weight as the chaos of war, and notes on the long history of art balance the depiction of one individual life. As much poetry and mosaic as it is a novel, with not a word out of place, this book is a triumph — a masterclass in how to paint an entire world.”
An Artful Life, or, How to Stuff Thirty-Five Paintings Into One (Short) Novel
CS Richardson offers a primer on how non-fiction can bring fiction to life, how a novel published over thirty years ago inspired All the Colour in the World, and how to write about art without actually showing any art.
