Event Advisory - Re-Imagined Homelands: Marlon James in Conversation with David Chariandy
TORONTO, March 7, 2018 /CNW/ - PEN Canada presents Re-Imagined Homelands: Marlon James in Conversation with David Chariandy on April 17 in the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library.
Prize-winning authors David Chariandy and Marlon James discuss how fiction has reclaimed representations of the Caribbean within mainstream American, British, and Canadian literature.
Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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| Where: |
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library |
| 789 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M4W 2G8 |
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| When: |
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 7 p.m. |
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His third novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women and John Crow's Devil. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
David Chariandy grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. His debut novel, Soucouyant, received stunning reviews and nominations from 11 literary awards juries, including a Governor General's Literary Award shortlisting, a Gold Independent Publisher Award for Best Novel, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. Brother, his second novel, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Full event information:
https://pencanada.ca/events/re-imagined-homelands-marlon-james-with-david-chariandy/
About PEN Canada
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