Event Details:
Malvern Library
Sat Oct 20, 2012
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
180 mins
Explore the work of Tamil Canadian writers shaped by the war and repression that brought the Tamil people here. With short-story writer Appadurai Muttulingam, poet-playwright R. Cheran, director Dushy Gnanapragasam and Professor Chelva Kanaganyakam. Co-sponsored by The Toronto Review of Books, www.torontoreviewofbooks.com. Translation to Tamil as required. Light refreshments (donated).
R. Cheran has published many anthologies of poetry in Tamil and in English translation. His poems have been translated into German, Swedish, Sinhala, Kannada and Malayalam and his English plays have been performed in Canada and the U.S. He is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor.
Chelva Kanaganyakam is a professor in the Dept. of English at the University of Toronto and a scholar of post-colonial literature, with research interests in contemporary Indian literature and Southeast Asian writing.
Appadurai Muttulingam has published more than 100 short stories in Tamil, as well as collections of essays and interviews. He has won many literary prizes and is actively involved in the Tamil Literary Garden, dedicated to the international promotion of Tamil literature.
Dushy Gnanapragasam is a director with Asylum Theatre Group and Manaveli Performing Arts Group. His directorial ventures include the plays of R. Cheran, Pinter’s New World Order, Fratti’s The Satraps, and Turgenev’s Broke.
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