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Join us in store for a discussion with Leila Marshy and Anita Anand about their respective works. This event is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP on TicketSource. Masks are not required, but will be provided for free at the door.ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Leila Marshy is of Palestinian-Newfoundland parentage, which explains a lot. During the First Intifada, she worked for the Palestinian Mental Health Association in Gaza, and Medical Aid for Palestine in Montreal. In 2011 she founded Friends of Hutchison, a ground-breaking community group bringing Hasidic and non-Hasidic neighbours together in dialogue. Her first novel, The Philistine was published in 2018 and in French in 2021. She lives in Montreal.
Anita Anand is a writer and literary translator from Montreal. Her novel A Convergence of Solitudes won a 2023 Ippy (Independent Publishers’) gold medal, was nominated for the 2023 Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award, and was a finalist for the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Foreword Indies Award. She is also the author of Swing in the House and Other Stories, which won the 2015 QWF Concordia University First Book Prize. Her translation of Nirliit was nominated for the John Glasscoe Award in 2018. Anand has also translated two books by Fanie Demeules, known in English as Lightness and Mukbang. As the Andes Disappeared, her translation of Là où je me terre by the late Caroline Dawson, was on the shortlist for the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
Photo credit: Marie-France Coallier
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1841-A rue Sainte. Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3H 1M2
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