Get to know Canada Reads panellist Chantal Kreviazuk
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: March 23, 2017 4:18 PM | Last Updated: April 3, 2017
Chantal Kreviazuk's bold voice launched a platinum-selling album in 1997, and she amplified another important Canadian voice when she championed Sheila Watt-Cloutier's memoir The Right to Be Cold on Canada Reads 2017. The book chronicles Watt-Cloutier's incredible work on climate change in Canada's north.
Watch Watt-Cloutier get to know her defender a little better by posing a series of personal questions.
Canada Reads took place March 27–30, 2017. Check out all the details and get to know this year's contenders here.
Where is your favourite place to read?
On the plane. I love to read on the plane because I'm going to be able to focus. There's not a door knocking, a phone ringing, a child bouncing a ball.
What is the first book you read that made you love reading?
Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. by Judy Blume.
What was it about my book that you connected with?
Honestly, I connected with your voice, Sheila. The way that you spoke to me, personally. I feel that it's very un-condescending and it's very un-pretentious. I like that you manage to mix straight-up facts with something that is — for lack of a better word — a bit more mystical and otherworldly, without intimidating me or making me feel like I was out of my realm.
How do you describe Canada Reads to people who don't know what it is?
Canada Reads seems to be the celebration of five very deserving books and an opportunity to defend one to the end.
Where is your favourite place to visit in Canada?
York Factory in Churchill, Manitoba.
Describe Canada Reads in one word.
Exciting.
Describe my book in five words.
Transcending. Humbling. God-invoking. Angelic. Crucial.