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