Pleins Feux sur la Nouvelle Littérature Sud-Asiatique

Soirée de lecture et de discussion de la diaspora sud-asiatique explorant la nature de l’exil et le sentiment d’appartenance à travers la poésie et la fiction.

Joignez-vous à Shyam Selvadurai, auteur canadien des livres à succès Drôle de garçon, Jardins de cannelle et Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, à l'occasion d'une soirée mettant en vedette les points de vue très différents de trois auteurs sur les cultures de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Ouest.

Écoutez des lectures du poète britannique Daljit Nagra (Look We Have Coming to Dover!), lauréat du prix du meilleur recueil Forward Poetry Prize au Royaume-Uni en 2007, de l'auteur canadien Jaspreet Singh, qui explore la complexité du Cachemire dans son nouveau livre Chef, et de Padma Viswanathan (The Toss of a Lemon), une des nouvelles romancières de Random House of Canada en 2008.

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Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Funny Boy his first novel was published to acclaim in 1994 and won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and The Lambda Literary Award in the U.S. He is the author of Cinnamon Gardens and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea and the editor of an anthology, Story-wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction.

Daljit Nagra was born and raised in West London, then Sheffield, and currently lives in Willesden where he works in a secondary school. Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.

Jaspreet Singh's Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir won the Quebec Writers' Federation 2004 First Book Prize. It has been translated into Spanish and Punjabi. In 2002, Quill & Quire magazine identified him as one of "five new talents to watch." His stories have appeared in Alphabet City (MIT Press), ascent, Coming Attractions, subTerrain, Maisonneuve, Fiddlehead, Walrus, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope, and CBC Radio.

Padma Viswanathan is a fiction writer, playwright and journalist from Edmonton, Alberta. Her writing awards include residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Banff Playwrights' Colony, and first place in the 2006 Boston Review Short Story Contest. She received her Creative Writing MA from Johns Hopkins and her MFA from the University of Arizona, and lives with her family in Fayetteville, Arkansas.