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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 04:13 AM

3480 University Street, Room 304 (McConnell Engineering Building - McGill University) (accessible entrance via Milton gates)

Dionne Brand, one of Canada's most celebrated writers, will be in attendance for her presentation "Writing and Resistance". For the event, Brand will be reading from a selection of her award-winning books of poetry, novels and essays and discussing her experiences using writing as a form of resistance against oppression, and as a tool for social and political empowerment....

QPIRG-Concordia and the 2110 Centre present...

Dionne Brand: "Writing and Resistance"

Friday, March 9th, 7pm

3480 University Street, Room 304

(McConnell Engineering Building - McGill University)

(accessible entrance via Milton gates)

Dionne Brand, one of Canada's most celebrated writers, will be in
attendance for her presentation "Writing and Resistance". For the
event, Brand will be reading from a selection of her award-winning
books of poetry, novels and essays and discussing her experiences using
writing as a form of resistance against oppression, and as a tool for social and
political empowerment.

The event is being presented by QPIRG Concordia as part of their
"Tools4Change" series and by the 2110 Centre for Gender
Advocacy, and co-sponsored by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, the
McGill Black Students' Network, QPIRG-McGill, Queer McGill and CKUT
Radio.

Childcare and ASL interpretation are available upon request (48hr
advance request required), by contacting QPIRG Concordia
(info@qpirgconcordia.org 514-848-7585).

Books will be on sale at the event courtesy of the Concordia Community
Solidarity Co-op Bookstore

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A Short Biography:

Dionne Brand is a poet, novelist and essayist living in Toronto. Her eight volumes of poetry include Land to Light On which won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Trillium Award for Literature in 1997. Brand’s thirsty. was nominated for the Trillium Prize for Literature, the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Toronto Book Award in 2003. It won the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry. Her latest volume of poetry is called Inventory .

Dionne Brand’s latest novel What We All Long For was published to great acclaim in Canada and Italy. It won the 2006 Toronto Book Award. Her fiction includes the acclaimed novel In Another Place Not Here - a 1998 New York Times notable book - and Sans Souci and Other Stories. Her second title At the Full and Change of the Moon is a novel spanning six generations, two wars and the violence of the late twentieth century. The Village Voice included her in their 1999 Writers on the Verge Literary supplement. The novel was a Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year, 1999.
Her works of non fiction include Bread Out Of Stone, and, A Map to the Door of No Return a meditation on Blackness in the diaspora.