Diaspora Dialogues TOK Symposium

Diaspora Dialogues: The Haunting of Us

Sophie Jai and Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

12:00pm

Sunday, September 24, 2023

60 mins

Recently nominated for the 2023 Toronto Book Award, and winner of the 2023 Fred Kerner Book Award for Fiction, Sophie Jai’s debut novel Wild Fires (“Exquisite, evocative prose.” – Quill and Quire) explores the ways we mourn and why we avoid the very things that can save us. In her debut collection of short stories, Suite as Sugar, Camille Hernández-Ramdwar writes of the violence wrought upon humans and animals alike – as well as the resilience and will to survive. These novels travel from the streets of Trinidad to Toronto and back, as well as Havana’s haunted streets and Winnipeg’s winterscapes. Moderated by Tiara Chutkhan.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

How to attend

$39.99

Single Day Pass

$69.99

Weekend Pass

$249.99

Full Festival Pass

Students and youth save up to 50% on passes.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Sophie Jai

Wild Fires is Sophie Jai’s debut novel. It is the winner of the 2023 Fred Kerner Book Award and 2019 Borough Press x The Good Literary Agency Prize. It is currently longlisted for the 2023 Toronto Book Awards, was shortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. Jai has been a Writer-in-Residence & Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers where she studied under Olive Senior. She is currently working on her second novel of short stories at the University of Oxford.