Thursday, April 1, 2010

South Asian writers focus of Montreal's Blue Met

Governor General's Award-winning author M.G. Vassanji and Mexican novelist Cristina Rivera Garza are among the literary stars who will appear at Montreal's Blue Metropolis festival next month.

The annual festival devoted to writing from around the world announced its lineup on Tuesday, March 30. Toronto-based Vassanji, author of Giller Prize winner The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, won the Governor General's Literary Award this year for A Place Within: Rediscovering India.

He appears in a program of South Asian writers with two authors from India — poet and playwright Koyamparambath Satchidanandan and multilingual children's author and publisher Sandhya Rao.

The multilingual Blue Met program also focuses on Arab, Portuguese and Spanish writers as well as a group of Quebec literary stars.

Full report here  CBCNews

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