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 the translator of over thirty books 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 won an Obie for his play Salesman之死.
Credit Qingshan Wang
Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor who works across genres. The author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Bright Machine, and The World After Rain, Lubrin is the recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, among other distinctions.
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Dates & Times
This event has ended.
Sun, Nov 2
3:00pm
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4:30pmA book signing will follow this event
Venue
Victoria College, Room 215
73 Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto, ON
