Kamal Al-Solaylee

Kamal Al-Solaylee is the author of the national bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for the CBC’s Canada Reads, as well as the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. A finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction as well as the Trillium Book Award, Brown won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. He holds a PhD in English and is a professor of journalism and literary non-fiction at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.

Kamal Al-Solaylee is published by HarperCollins Canada

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