About
Jeremy Tiang is a Singaporean author, translator and playwright who will be discussing his fiction, non-fiction, and the role translation places in his creative life. His history as a translator- he has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world – comes into play in his upcoming book Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation, and he tackles politics and familial connection and immigration in his books State of Emergency: A Novel and It Never Rains on National Day: Stories.
The author will be in conversation with Canisia Lubrin.
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and translator from Chinese. He was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency and for his translation of Zhang Yueran's Cocoon, and he recently won an Obie Award for his play Salesman之死.
Canisia Lubrin’s books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Derek Walcott Prize, the Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Stars prize and others.
Photo credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Dates & Times
Sun, Nov 2
3:00pm
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4:30pmA book signing will follow this event
Tickets
This is a FREE event
Venue
Victoria College, Room 215
73 Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto, ON
