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Let's Get To Know...On today's episode of all about canadian books let's get to know Canadian author Dr. Anita Jack-Davies and learn the story behind her memoir Lawrencia’s Last Parang: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada Dr. Anita was born in Toronto, Ontario, and spent her formative years on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, but returned to Canada at eleven years old. In 1998, she became a teacher and spent five years as an educator with the Toronto District School Board before returning to graduate school to earn a Ph.D. in Education. She is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Planning at Queen’s University and is Director, Strategic Partnerships & Development at Ryerson University. She has taught courses in the areas of black feminisms, feminist pedagogies and race and racism. The Story Behind Lawrencia's Last ParangLawrencia’s Last Parang: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada is a snapshot of Dr. Anita’s life after the grandmother who raised her passed away. Her book is a memoir, a eulogy, and an academic analysis, the book offers an insightful exploration of race in Canada. After listening to Dr. Anita speak about what it's like to be black and living in Canada I was speechless. It is having difficult conversations such as this and learning from them that we can aspire to make the world a better place for all. I am so very grateful for my time with this brave and inspiring woman. Lawrencia's Last Parang will be published by Inanna Publications on June 20, 2023!  Thanks SO much for watching. A HUGE thank you to Anita .
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Let's Get To Know...Let's get to know the fabulous Canadian women behind the fiction novel A Knife in the Skye. To honour and to celebrate Black History Month it was such an honour to speak with the lovely and inspiring prize-winning Haitian-Québécoise author, Marie-Célie Agnant and translator Katia Grubisic, who is also an award-winning writer and editor. Marie-Célie Agnant BackgroundMarie-Célie Agnant is a poet, short story writer, young adult fiction writer, storyteller, and novelist, Marie-Célie Agnant was born in Haiti and has lived in Québec since 1970. Many of her books evoke the hardships endured by women in the West Indies and the difficulty of legitimizing this part of history even today. Her work has been published in Québec, France, and Haiti, and translated into several languages. Her novel Le dot de Sara (Remue-Ménage, 1995) was a finalist for the Desjardins prize, her collection of short stories Le silence comme le sang (Remue-Ménage, 1997) was a finalist for the Governor General’s prize for fiction, and she has won the Prix Gros Sel for her children’s book La légende du poisson amoureux (Mémoire d’encrier, 2003), the prose creation prize awarded by the SODEP for “Sofialorène, si loin de la délivrance,” and the prestigious Prix Alain-Grandbois for her third collection of poems Femmes des terres brûlées (Éditions de la Pleine Lune, 2016). Katia Grubisic Background Katia Grubisic's work has appeared in various Canadian and international publications including The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, The Globe and Mail, Grain, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Prairie Fire. Her collection What if red ran out (Goose Lane Editions, 2008) was shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and won the 2009 Gerald Lampert award for best first book. Her book translations include Louis Patrick Leroux’s play False Starts: A Subterfuge of Excellent Wit (with Alexandre St-Laurent; Talonbooks, 2016), Martine Delvaux’s White Out (LLP, 2018), Jeanne Painchaud’s ABCMTL (ruelle, 2019), Stéphane Martelly’s Little Girl Gazelle (ruelle, 2020), Ioana Georgescu’s Daughterof Here (LLP, 2020), and Marie-Claire Blais’s Songs for Angel (House of Anansi, 2021). Her translations of David Clerson’s first novel, Brothers (QC Fiction, 2016), and of Alina Dumitrescu’s A Cemetery for Bees (LLP, 2021) were shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for translation.  The Story Behind A Knife in the SkyIn A Knife in the Sky, a journalist’s decision to talk and a student’s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti’s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty’s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny. Originally published by Éditions du Remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, this book, like most of the author’s oeuvre, is preoccupied with colonial imposition. Marie-Célie Agnant writes on the ruthlessness of a dictatorship, on humanity, and locates the strength and power of resistance in women. Don't miss Marie-Célie share how real life Haitian journalist Yvonne Hakim Rimpel was the inspiration behind this novel. Thanks SO much for watching. A BIG merci beaucoup to Marie-Célie Agnant and Katia Grubisic .
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