The Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature presents its annual lecture: On Complex Stories: Sarah Bernstein and Canisia Lubrin onstage
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The Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto presents its annual lecture:
On Complex Stories: Sarah Bernstein and Canisia Lubrin onstage
Hosted by David Chariandy
Join us on Thursday, February 26th for a public lecture and dialogue featuring two of Canada’s most celebrated literary authors. When do writers insist upon complex, thick, or knotted stories? What are the needs and pleasures of such work today?
Where: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto
When: Doors open at 6:15. Lecture and dialogue begin at 7:00 pm.
Refreshments will be served.
Bios:
Sarah Bernstein is the author of The Coming Bad Days and Study for Obedience, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Internationaler Literaturpreis. Her work is translated in 16 languages. She is from Montreal and lives in the Scottish Highlands.
Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor. The author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Bright Machine (2026), and The World After Rain (2025), Lubrin is the recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, among other distinctions. She was born in St. Lucia and lives in Whitby.
David Chariandy is a writer and critic. Author of the novels Soucouyant and Brother, he has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Toronto Book Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. A member of the editorial board of Brick: a literary journal, he is Professor of English and Avie Bennett Chair of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.