Congratulations to Farida by Monia Mazigh, translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, for being on the Longlist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation.
Continue readingI Left You Behind, my collection of short stories, arose from an accident. During Covid, I had spent hours gazing at old family photographs of my father whom I adored. Then I took this a step further and wrote down my earliest memory of him. The story flowed like silk. I was stunned that I was able to finish it. I sent it off as a sample with the application of a Toronto Arts Award…
Continue readingJoin us for an enlightening and thought-provoking event as we celebrate the book launch of “Trachea” by Mayank Bhatt.
Continue readingFrom Mawenzi House Publishers to our devoted readers, summer has officially started! This summer we want to shine some sunlight on our fiction titles. From teenagers attempting to destroy Shakespeare’s manuscripts, to small Indian Muslim communities torn apart by archaic social customs, embark on a journey with these six books. 1. The Blessed Curse by Sarmad Sehbai We start our summer reading list with a dark comedy about searching for a male aphrodisiac. A group…
Continue readingThe holiday season is upon us! This year we decided to highlight our titles from around the world – from the Caribbean to the Middle East and Asia. We want you to read (and gift) a world of difference this holiday season.
Continue readingJoin Another Story Bookshop for a special event with Mariam Pirhbai and Jasmin Zine discussing their new books Isolated Incident & Under Siege In Store Free, all welcome Featuring a conversation with Dr. Kathrine Bullock and poetry reading by Fareh Malik.
Continue readingJoin Devakanthan for a journey through Sri Lanka in the 1980s as he presents his latest novels His Sacred Army and A Time of Questions from the award-winning quintet series Prison of Dreams. The series describes the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict, the hard choices faced by the minority communities subject to pogroms and oppressive laws, and the sufferings and exiles of simple villagers. Having personally been exiled by the Sri Lankan civil war, Devakanthan’s book examines the marginalization and trauma caused…
Continue readingOlive Senior is the Toronto-based Jamaican author of 18 works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature. Her widely taught, widely translated works have won her many awards, including the Matt Cohen Award, the Musgrave Medal, and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Her stories, set in rural and urban Jamaica, are celebrated for their humour and musicality, haunting use of history and folklore, and rich characters, many of them children coming to terms with…
Continue readingKagiso Lesego Molope is a South African writer who lives in Ottawa. Her novels, set in the South Africa of the 1990s and afterwards, bear witness to the legacies of apartheid and are studied in schools across South Africa. Her best-known book, the young adult novel This Book Betrays My Brother, won a Percy FitzPatrick Award and an Ottawa Book Award. and was named to best-of lists by Kirkus Reviews, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Chicago Public Library. WHAT TO READ: Awumey is a Togolese-Canadian writer…
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