Posted on 08 August 2011.
Dionne Brand Wins Griffen Prize
Dionne Brand, writer, filmmaker, educator, and Toronto’s poet laureate is the Canadian winner of the $75,000 Griffen Prize for her book-length poem “Ossuaries”. Brand, a native of Trinidad & Tobago was previously nominated for her 2002 collection “thirsty”. The Prize was awarded June 1st at a gala dinner in Toronto’s Distillery District. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 January 2010.
Dionne Brand’s The Puzzle of Humanity: What We All Long For
Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
By Djami Diallo The Afro Vancouver
It is essentially the same question we ask ourselves as the clock strikes midnight to announce a new year. What do we wish for? Each year we make resolutions to get fit, be better friends, have more fun, work harder, get better job satisfaction, make more time for the things and the people we love. And each year, well, somehow we come up short despite our best efforts and vow to try again next year. Dionne Brand’s latest novel, What We All Long For gets right at the heart of this very question. She creates a colorful cast of characters in Quy, Tuyen, Carla, Jackie and Oku, whose stories she tells in a cyclical turn. The book opens with a description of the city taken with the passing of the seasons: winter, spring and weekday mornings on a subway train. Mundane scenes abound in this novel, but it is Brand’s eye for the detail of the everyday which we often miss that makes these scenes so real. We first find Tuyen, Oku and Carla in the ever familiar setting of the subway on a quiet weekday morning. The spotlight is on them in this city, the noisy, laughing, defiant, random trio at the back of the subway. Read the full story
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