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The Canadian South Asian Literary Festival will take place from Aug. 26-27 in Brampton, Ont., featuring writers of South Asian descent from across the country.

Silmy Abdullah’s Home of the Floating Lily begins and ends with the idea of ‘home.’ The stories focus on characters wrestling with migration, containment, and forging new identities as ‘foreigners’ on Canadian soil.

Bowes won this year's award for her book 20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis (Gabriel Dumont Institute Press).

Arnolda Dugour Bowes, Helen Chau Bradley and Gillian Wigmore round out the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award shortlist. The $10,000 award is given out annually to the year's best first collection of short fiction.

, won the  Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. It was also a finalist for both the Governor Generals Award for fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, Ont. The Lover, the Lake is a novel by Virginia Pésémapeo Bordeleau (pictured), translated by Susan Ouriou.(Freehand Books) The Lover, the Lake was a sensation when it was originally published in French. Now available in English,  The Lover, the Lake is a celebration of Ind...

The Crash Palace is a book by Andrew Wedderburn.(Coach House Books, Malcolm Overend) The Crash Palace is about a woman named Audrey, who used to work in the oil fields and attend parties at a remote lodge in the wilderness known as the Crash Palace. Audrey has long left that life behind her, and now has a daughter. But one night, she is compelled to return to the now-abandoned Crash Palace — where she must also reckon with her past. When you can read it: Jan. 12, 2021 Andrew Wedderburn is a ...