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Biblioasis’s new series tries to incite debate and fill a hole in the publishing landscape

S3E11 of The Conversation Piece Podcast

Amazon Canada First Novel Award 2020 Celebrating debut Canadian novelists since 1976 Stéphane Larue, author of The Dishwasher (Biblioasis/Biblioasis International Translation Series) is the winner of the forty-fourth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award (amazon.ca/firstnovelaward), which celebrates first-time Canadian novelists. Larue, a resident of Longueuil, Quebec, receives a grand cash prize of $60,000. The Dishwasher …

, Nisga’a writer  Jordan Abel explores how the colonial violence of residential school impacted his grandparent’s generation, his father’s generation, and his own.   According to the publisher Penguin Random House,  NISHGA “is a book about confronting difficult truths and it is about how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples engage with a history of colonial violence that is quite often rendered invisible.” On Thursday, May 27, Jordan Abel will take part in a one-hour conversation on Wordfest.com, as part of their 

Michelle Cyca: How would you describe your literary tastes? Jen Sookfong Lee: I mostly read novels — my favourites are really immersive novels that have a lot of different layers in terms of setting and character, and all those fictional elements. I look for something that will suck me in and not let me go. The last one was Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz, which is a pandemic novel. Oddly, she wrote it before any of this happened. It’s not that she was predicting the future, but she did a lot of research into pandemics and viruses like COVID. It’s a fascinating read, a...