Author, lawyer and social justice advocate, Silmy Abdullah’s debut collection of short stories, Home of The Floating Lily, an intimate portrait of Bangladeshi Canadian immigrants, is about the meaning of home. “I have multiple homes and no home at all at the same time!” she tells NCM’s Baisakhi Roy.
View More Author Silmy Abdullah: a fluid sense of belonging
On this first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (Sept. 30), we carry a book excerpt that speaks to the experience of ‘othering’ and how the writer is learning to cope in a milieu that feels alien and home at the same time.
View More Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language — An Excerpt
The Scotiabank Giller Prize shines a light on the best of Canadian literature, promoting the works of both emerging and established authors. A testament to the increasing contribution of immigrant voices to Canadian literature, the award’s 2021 longlist includes the novels of four immigrant writers.
View More Four Immigrant Canadian Writers Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
A novel steeped in history and a deep sense of place, Victory Colony, 1950 is a story about resilience and self-empowerment, two qualities needed for survival when faced with unspeakable tragedy, but also ultimately about the East Bengali refugees’ inexhaustible generosity, solidarity, and dignity.
View More Victory Colony, 1950 Gives a Voice to Forgotten Refugees
In Palestinian-Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban’s third book, the historical, the political, and the personal are carefully calibrated into a brief but incandescent novel.
View More I Am Ariel Sharon: A Novel of Poetic Fury
The India-based journalist Shakoor Rather’s debut novel, “Life in the Clock Tower Valley,” delivers a unique look into Kashmir, where normal, day-to-day life unfolds amid unrest and uncertainty.
View More ‘Life in the Clock Tower Valley’ Offers Intimate View of Life in Kashmir
Farzana Doctor, author of “Seven,” makes sure that the characters in her stories are psychologically informed. “There is so much misinformation out there about how people experience and remember trauma. I want to dispel that,” she tells NCM’s Baisakhi Roy.
View More Author Farzana Doctor On Trauma, Belonging and Female Genital Mutilation
“We have to reveal the truth. We have to tell things as they are. If not, then they repeat. We cannot sugarcoat things.” — Alison Clarke, author of Phillis.
View More From Slavery to Juneteenth: Why Black History Matters
Le nouveau livre de Monique Polak propose 21 recettes pour tisser des liens entre les cultures et les histoires des immigrants et des autochtones grâce au pouvoir de la nourriture.
View More Tisser des liens par la nourriture
Monique Polak’s new recipe book features 19 recipes from Quebec’s first-generation immigrants and First Nations communities as a way to bridge various cultures and histories together through food.
View More Connections Forged with Food