Manuel Mathieu & Edwidge Dandicat

Manuel Mathieu in conversation with Edwidge Danticat in partnership with The Power Plant

Edwidge Danticat and Manuel Mathieu

Manuel Mathieu in conversation with Edwidge Danticat in partnership with The Power Plant

Edwidge Danticat and Manuel Mathieu

1:00pm

Saturday, October 24

45 mins

The Power Plant and the 41st edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors co-present this conversation between Haitian-born, Montreal-based artist Manuel Mathieu and award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. Mathieu’s painterly work reflects on the fraught history of Haiti, on diasporic identity, and on the writings of Frantz Fanon. Danticat’s novels and non-fiction works explore autobiographical threads relating to her experience of Haiti’s dual dictatorships, which forced her family to migrate to the United States. The two will engage in conversation; the programme will conclude with questions and answers from the audience.

The Power Plant and the 41st edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors co-present this conversation between Haitian-born, Montreal-based artist Manuel Mathieu and award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. Mathieu’s painterly work reflects on the fraught history of Haiti, on diasporic identity, and on the writings of Frantz Fanon. Danticat’s novels and non-fiction works explore autobiographical threads relating to her experience of Haiti’s dual dictatorships, which forced her family to migrate to the United States. The two will engage in conversation; the programme will conclude with questions and answers from the audience.

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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is an editor and the author of seven books for young adults and children, a travel narrative and a collection of essays. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2019 winner of the Saint Louis Literary Award and a 2020 winner of the Vilceck Prize. Her most recent book, Everything Inside: Stories, is a winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the National Books Critics Circle Fiction Prize.

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Manuel Mathieu
Manuel Mathieu received his BFA from Université du Québec à Montréal and his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. Mathieu was an artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2019-20), and the Pamela Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida residency program, Sonoma CA (2019). Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2020); HDM Gallery, Beijing (2019) and The Armory Show, New York (2018). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions held in Canada, USA and Europe. Mathieu was one of the artists recognized by the 2020 Sobey Art Award. 

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Manuel Mathieu & Edwidge Dandicat

1:00pm

Saturday, October 24

45 mins

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