David Chariandy
David Chariandy is a Canadian writer and one of the co-founders of Commodore Books. His debut novel Soucouyant was nominated for ten literary prizes and awards, including the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (longlisted), the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize (longlisted), the 2007 Governor General's Award for Fiction (finalist), the 2007 ForeWord Book of the Year Award for literary fiction from an independent press ("gold" winner), the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book of Canada and the Caribbean (shortlisted), the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the British Columbia Book Prizes (shortlisted), the 2008 City of Toronto Book Award (shortlisted), the 2008 "One Book, One Vancouver" of the Vancouver Public Library (shortlisted), the 2008 Relit Award for best novel from a Canadian independent press (shortlisted), and the 2007 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award (shortlisted).
Chariandy has a MA from Carleton and a PhD from York University. He lives in Vancouver and teaches in the department of English at Simon Fraser University.[1]
Further reading
- Anatol, Giselle Liza. The Things That Fly In the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015.
- Delisle, Jennifer Bowering. “‘A Bruise Still Tender’: David Chariandy’s Soucouyant and Cultural Memory.” Ariel 41.2 (2010): 1–21.
- Francis, Donette. Review of Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting, by David Chariandy. Journal of West Indian Literature 17.1 (2008): 76–79.
- Machado Sáez, Elena (2015), "Writing the Reader: Literacy and Contradictory Pedagogies in Julia Alvarez, Michelle Cliff, and Marlon James", Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, ISBN 978-0-8139-3705-2.
- Minto, Deonne N. Review of Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting, by David Chariandy. Callaloo 33.3 (2010): 887–907.
References
- ↑ Faculty & Staff, Simon Fraser University.