Location: Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave. (@ Bloor St.) ,Toronto, ON
Join host, Shyam Selvadurai, bestselling Canadian author of Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens, and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, for an evening featuring three authors’ very different perspectives on the cultures of South Asia and the West.
Hear readings from British poet Daljit Nagra (Look We Have Coming to Dover!), winner of the 2007 UK Forward Poetry Prize for best new collection; Canadian author Jaspreet Singh, whose new book Chef explores the complexity of Kashmir; and Padma Viswanathan (The Toss of a Lemon), one of Random House of Canada’s New Faces of Fiction, 2008.
'Fresh, funny and riotously idiosyncratic ... A glorious testament to a rich British-Indian mix.' The Independent – on Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover, one of the ten best new poetry collections
'One of London's Hottest New Writers.' Time Out on Daljit Nagra
'Jaspreet Singh’s prose flashes with poetic lyricism.' Montreal Gazette
Tickets cost $10
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