{"id":176433798,"date":"2014-03-14T00:18:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T05:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176433798"},"modified":"2014-03-14T00:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T05:34:15","slug":"literature-5-black-canadian-novelists-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/03\/14\/literature-5-black-canadian-novelists-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"LITERATURE: 5 Black Canadian Novelists You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FIVE BLACK CANADIAN<\/strong><\/span> NOVELISTS<\/strong><\/span> YOU SHOULD KNOW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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How many black Canadian novelists can you name? Top marks if you were able to name two. There are many more but they tend to be under the radar. Here is our list of five of the best black novelists in Canada.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nalo Hopkinson.<\/strong>\u00a0This fantasy and science fiction writer has published 10 novels and many short stories. Hopkinson is originally from Jamaica. Her best sellers include Brown Girl in the Ring and The Salt Roads. Hopkinson\u2019s latest book is Sister Mine.\u00a0Nalo Hopkinson<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Dany Laferriere.<\/strong>\u00a0This Haitian-Canadian writer is best known for How to Make Love to a Negro, Without Getting Tired. Laferriere has a wicked sense of humour. His other novels include I am a Japanese Writer and Dining with the Dictator.\u00a0Dany Laferriere<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Lawrence Hill<\/strong>. This lyrical writer has published novels and memoirs. My favourite are Any Known Blood and The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows my Name). The latter won the Commonwealth Writers\u2019 prize. Hill\u2019s latest book is the non-fiction Blood: The Stuff of Life. Hill\u2019s parents are black and white Americans.\u00a0Lawrence Hill
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Austin Clarke.<\/strong>\u00a0He is the grandfather of Caribbean-Canadian writing. Clarke has won the Giller and the Commonwealth Writers\u2019 prizes. My favourite of his books are Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack, and The Polished Hoe. Clarke is originally from Barbados. His latest book is More. It won the City of Toronto Book Award.\u00a0Goodreads, Austin Clarke
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Esi Edugyan.<\/strong>\u00a0Her second novel, Half Blood Blues, made Edugyan a publishing sensation. It won the Giller Prize. Edugyan was born in Canada to parents from Ghana.Esi Edugyan<\/span><\/a><\/span> Photo: Nalo Hopkinson<\/span> \u00a9 Jacqueline L. Scott is a writer in Toronto, Canada. She writes on travel, race and culture.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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05 JANUARY 2014 FIVE BLACK CANADIAN NOVELISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW How many black Canadian novelists can you name? Top marks if you were able to name two. There are many more but they tend to be under the radar. Here is our list of five of the best black novelists in Canada. Nalo Hopkinson.\u00a0This fantasy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176433798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176433834,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433798\/revisions\/176433834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176433798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176433798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176433798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}