About this Event
Join us as we celebrate recent novels by Shani Mootoo and H. Nigel Thomas discussing both the legacies and futures of Caribbean-Canadian writing.
With special guests Zalika Reid-Benta and Phillip Dwight Morgan.
Hosted by David Chariandy
Refreshments will be served.
Free, all welcome.
H. Nigel Thomas came to Canada from St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968. He is a retired professor of U.S. literature, the author of numerous essays and fifteen books, as well as a co-founder of Lectures Logos Readings. His fiction focuses on queer themes, parent-child relationships in Canada and the Caribbean, and the plethora of issues central to Afro-Caribbean and African Canadian existence. He has received many awards, including the 2022 Canada Council John Molson Prize for the Arts. His novel A Different Hurricane was shortlisted for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction. His most recent novel, And then again Begin, was published on April 1, 2026. Additional information is available at: hnigelthomas.org.
SHANI MOOTOO is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one short story collection. She is a four-time Giller Prize nominee, and her work has been long and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Lambda Literary Prize, and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has been awarded the Doctor of Letters honoris causa degree from Western University, is a recipient of Lambda Literary’s James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award, and Library and Archives Canada Scholar Award. Mootoo was born in Ireland, raised in Trinidad, and lives in Southern Ontario, Canada.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
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