Antanas Sileika

Antanas Sileika's new novel, Underground, was released by Thomas Allen & Son in 2011. The story is set in the underground resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940's. Antanas Sileika has worked frequently as a reviewer of books for radio, television, and print. He is the artistic director for the Humber School for Writers, in Toronto, and is a past winner of a National Magazine Award.
His second book, a collection of linked short stories, Buying On Time (1997), was nominated for both the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and was serialized on CBC Radio's Between the Covers. The book traces the lives of a family of immigrants to a Canadian suburb between the fifties and seventies. Some of these stories were anthologized in Dreaming Home, Canadian Short Stories, and the Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour. His third book, Woman in Bronze (2004), compared the seasonal life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his subsequent attempts to succeed as a prominent sculptor in Paris in the twenties. The novel was a Globe “Best Book” of that year.
Appearances at BookFestWindsor:
November 5, 4:00 p.m. (Wilkinson)