Author talks
Mississauga Library’s Author Talk series features a wide range of talented writers. Hear authors read from their books, ask questions, learn about the writing process, and find out more about their craft of telling captivating stories. For ages 13 and over.
Madhur Anand
Wed, April 19, 7-8 pm
Madhur Anand is a Canadian poet and professor of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at University of Guelph. Winner of the 2020 Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction, and a Quill and Quire’s book-of-the-year, her book, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma. Her latest book Parasitic Oscillations was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and a CBC Top Pick for Spring Poetry.
Shyam Selvadurai
Wed, May 17, 7-8 pm
Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist most noted for Funny Boy, which won Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was adapted into a film. He co-wrote the screenplay, and won the Canadian Screen Award and the New York Cinema Independent Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His other books include, Cinnamon Gardens, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea and The Hungry Ghosts. Shyam’s latest novel Mansion of the Moon is a historical novel about the Buddha’s wife.
Cody Caetano
Wed, June 21, 7-8 pm
Cody Caetano is a writer of Anishinaabe and Portuguese descent and an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. His debut memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia was longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 and named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail and CBC Books. Excerpts of Half-Bads in White Regalia earned him a 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose. In 2022, CBC Books named him a Writer to Watch.