Author Nicolas Dickner will be the Jack Matthews Fellow in Residence January 26 and 27.

Nicolas Dickner's novel "Nikolski" was the Canada Reads selection for 2010. I loved the novel's vision of a post-modern Canadian geography. Its central characters are very much products of the wired generation of Canadians. Depicting the lives of three young Canadians, "Nikolski" maps those lives across the vast and wayward geography of this country, the Arctic, the Carribean, and the world. A generation like no other, their paths cross as pirates, lovers, nomads and wayfarers on the waters and shores of urban and ex-urban Canadian landscapes. I hope you'll love reading the book, too, and you'll provide a warm Champlain welcome to Nicolas on January 26 and 27.