Title: I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter Author: David Chariandy Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Pages: 128 David Chariandy and his family have no interest in Prince Harry and ...

Forgetting lies at the heart of Soucouyant, the first novel from SFU English prof David Chariandy. Adele forgets more each day as early-onset dementia turns her recollections to tatters. For his part, ...

In his slim but perfectly proportioned second novel, Brother, David Chariandy has accomplished a kind of literary alchemy, creating a believable world in just 180 pages. Or “worlds”, one could say.

The award-winning Chariandy has written a book about racism, struggle and love to mark his child’s coming of age In January 2017, the daughter and eldest child of David Chariandy and Sophie McCall ...

Last night David Chariandy, 48, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Brother, a novel both beautiful and politically charged. The parallel with Chariandy’s mentor and friend Austin Clarke ...

Charles Demers is a regular Tyee contributor and comedian. On memory, dementia, race and family. But for all its cachet, the ground floor is ill-defined, which is why I'm now proposing what I consider ...

At first, he thought it was a nasty practical joke. David Chariandy was in the archives at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad, conducting research for his next novel. He was ...

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“I have to say right off the bat – I am uncool. It should be in print.” Sitting in A Different Booklist, a bookstore that specializes in African and Canadian diaspora works, Vancouver-based author ...

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"I'm a fiction writer and this is clearly the work of the imagination. It's set in a time period that is very different from today's world. But I still wanted to capture what Scarborough was really ...