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August 12–15, 2010
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Meet the Writers: Ryan Knighton

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10 Ryan Knighton

Ryan Knighton

He likes to mess with people. Often they don’t believe he is blind. He sometimes wears regular glasses and looks at people when they speak to him. At readings he looks at his book and appears to be actually reading from it. But Ryan Knighton is blind. He has been slowly going blind for the last 20 years—since he was 18. Knighton, who teaches at Capilano University, wrote Cockeyed, his internationally acclaimed memoir about the experience. It is far more comedy than tragedy and his screenplay based on the book is currently optioned for film with Jodie Foster set to direct. Ryan became a dad a few years ago and that opened up a whole new world to navigate in the dark. He did what he does best and wrote C’mon Papa: Dispatches From a Dad in the Dark (Knopf Canada). Again, there is a whole lot of funny mixed in with the real challenges of looking after a child he cannot see.

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