Photo credit: Elizabeth Dungan.
Nadia L. Hohn
Canadian
Jamaican
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Nadia L. Hohn is a writer and educator. Her first picture book, Malaika’s Costume, won the Helen Isobel Sissons Canadian Children’s Story Award and the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) Children’s Literature Award. She is also the author of Malaika’s Winter Carnival and Malaika’s Surprise, both illustrated by Irene Luxbacher; A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes; and Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter, illustrated by Gustavo Mazali. Nadia’s writing is inspired by her childhood memories, Jamaican heritage, Black culture, world travels and social issues. She lives in Toronto.
Past Events
Malaika’s Surprise with Nadia L. Hohn & Irene Luxbacher
October 30, 2021 at 2pm
