Everyone welcome to attend literary reading events sponsored in part by the EML Literary Readings Series.

Free Literary Readings – David Chariandy & Nalo Hopkinson will read and talk Friday, October 22, 3:30 p.m., in Old Main 1732. This reading is sponsored
in part by the Canada Council
for the Arts, and is free and open to the public. David Chariandy is a novelist and Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University. His acclaimed first novel, Soucouyant, explores topics of memory, aging, dementia, race and family, and has been nominated for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, the two major fiction prizes in Canada.

David Chariandy will also be part of a panel on Art, Identity, and Place, which will be presented at the KAG, Thursday, October 21, at 7 p.m. Presenting at the panel will be another literary-series sponsored writer Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson can be heard reading Friday October 22, 2 p.m., at the downtown public library.