Malvern Panel Prior to Awards
Scarborough Book Cracks The Book Short List By Stephen Weir Trinidadian Canadian writer David Chariandy’s award winning novel, Brothers, is up for another prize. The winner of the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize has just been nominated for this year’s Toronto Book Awards. David Chariandy’s book is a devastating story about the love between a mother and her sons, the impact of race, masculinity and the senseless loss of young lives in Scarborough, in the violent summer of 1991. Brothers is one of five books on the City of Toronto and Toronto Public Library ‘s 2018 Toronto Book Awards shortlist. Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the awards honour books of literary merit that are evocative of Toronto. The 2018 shortlist is: · Dionne Brand “ The Unpublished City “, · David Chariandy “ Brother “, · Carrianne Leung “ That Time I Loved You “, · Lee Maracle “ My Conversations with Canadians “, ·