M.G. Vassanji at Montreal's Blue Metropolis Festival Next Month

30 March 2010
M.G. Vassanji at Montreal's Blue Metropolis Festival Next Month
Winner of this year's Governor General's Award, Moyez Gulamhussein Vasanji will attend the Blue Met Festival together with other award-winning interational literary stars such as Cristina Rivera Garza, Paul Muldoon, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Marjolijn Februari, Carolin Emcke, and Dominique Sylvain, among many others. Vasanji, author of A Place Within: Rediscovering India will appear in a program together with two renowned writers from India, Koyamparambath Satchidanandan and Sandhya Rao.

Other Asian writers who will participate in the event are:

Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese poet, winner of the Blue Metropolis Al Majidi Ibn Dhaher Arab Literary Prize
Iraq-born Quebec novelist and essayist Naïm Katta
Palestinian author and translator Issa J. Boullata
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