BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250601T150635EDT-6997XugPjZ@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250601T190635Z DESCRIPTION:The Department of English invites you to a joint reading with t he Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated authors Kasia Van Schaik & Padma Visw anathan. The readings will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Professor Ara Osterweil. This event does not require registration.\n\nKasia Juno Van Sc haik is the author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived on E arth\, which was nominated for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 20 22 Concordia University First Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books\, CBC Books\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, Best Canadian Poet ry\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus and more. Kasia holds a PhD in Liter ature from ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ\, where she teaches creative writing. She is currently working on a book of cultural criticism and memoir entitled Wome n Among Monuments. In 2021\, Kasia served as a CBC QWF writer-in-residence .\n\nPadma Viswanathan is a Canadian-American novelist\, published in eigh t countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize and the Scotiabank Gille r Prize. Recent publications include Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime and São Bernardo\, a translation of a novel by B razilian novelist Graciliano Ramos. Forthcoming works include a novel\, Th e Charterhouse of Padma\, and a translation of Djamila Ribeiro’s Where We Stand: Notes on Speech\, Place and Justice. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas\, she divides her time between Fayetteville and Montréal.\n DTSTART:20231019T213000Z DTEND:20231019T230000Z LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, Maxwell Cohen Moot Court\, New Chan cellor Day Hall\, 3644 Peel Street SUMMARY:A reading with Kasia Van Schaik & Padma Viswanathan URL:/english/channels/event/reading-kasia-van-schaik-p adma-viswanathan END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR