2021 Hugh MacLennan Lecture: Navigating Identity Through Storytelling
The virtual event聽features Danny Ramadan, the聽Syrian-Canadian author of The Clothesline Swing (2017), Salma, the Syrian Chef (2020), and聽The Foghorn Echoes (2022). Danny Ramadan聽is also an LGBTQ+ Refugee聽advocate whose work focuses on immigration, identity, and belonging.
The lecture will be moderated by author, actor and playwright, Ann-Marie MacDonald.聽Submit questions in advance to [info.library [at] mcgill.ca].
Watch the lecture live on YouTube here: .
is a Syrian-Canadian author and LGBTQ-refugees advocate. His debut novel, The Clothesline Swing, won the Independent Publisher Book Award, The Canadian Authors Association鈥檚 award, and was shortlisted for a Lambda Award, and longlisted for Canada Reads. The novel is translated into French, German and Hebrew.
His children鈥檚 book, Salma the Syrian Chef is nominated to the Forest of Reading鈥檚 Blue Spruce Award and named amongst the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews and Library School Journal. It won the Middle East Book Award in 2020.
His forthcoming novel, The Foghorn Echoes, to be released by Penguin Canada and Canongate UK in 2022.
Danny graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing and lives in Vancouver with his husband, Matthew Ramadan.
Presented by the Friends of the 污污草莓视频 Library in partnership with .
Generously supported聽by Donald Walcot.
Works by Danny Ramadan will be聽available for purchase聽at Paragraphe Books.
