Trinidad Canadian Author David Chariandy Wins Again
Two Brothers Grow Up Rough In Scarborough
By Stephen Weir - Caribbean Camera
It is another win for Brother and its author Trinidad Canadian author David
Chariandy. Over the weekend The West
Coast Book Prize Society honoured him when he was presented with the 2018 Ethel
Wilson Fiction Prize for writing the best work of fiction in the province!
The $2,000 Ethel Wilson Prize was one of
several prizes. The
Society award honours the achievements of British Columbia’s writers and
publishers. David Chariandy, formerly of
Scarborough, now lives and works in Vancouver.
In Brother,
Chariandy tells the story of two brothers, the sons of
Trinidadian immigrants, who confront violence and prejudice in a Toronto
housing complex during the sweltering heat
and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.
The BC win is the second major prize that the book
and the author has picked up. Last fall Brother won the $50,000 Writers’ Trust
Fiction Prize.
Like the
brothers in the book, the author is the son of Trinidadian immigrants. He was
raised on the eastern edge of Scarborough. He went to school in Toronto and Ottawa and holds an MA from
Carleton University and a PhD from York University.
He currently lives in Vancouver and
teaches in the department of English at Simon Fraser University.
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