Toronto is a bustling city on Lake Ontario which is growing at an astonishing rate. Almost a third of Torontonians have arrived in the last decade and more than half were born outside of Canada. The city’s Mohawk name is , which means “the place on the water where the trees are standing". Noah Richler explores the fictional landscape of the city with four of its exciting writers from different generations and backgrounds; Catherine Hernandez, Adrianna Chartrand, Don Gillmor and Deepa Rajagopalan who all join him in front of a lively audience at The House of Anansi Bookshop.
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Hello and welcome to World Book Cafe, the program that travels the globe discovering different places through writers and their work.
Today we're in Toronto, Canada, in the bookshop of one of the city's many independent publishers, this one the House of Anansi Press.
Toronto is a bustling city, growing at an astonishing rate.
Almost a third of Torontonians have arrived in the last decade and more than half were born outside of Canada.
Toronto's Mohawk name is Takaronto, which still an apt description, means the place in the water where the trees are standing.
And in Canada we are actively reconciling ourselves to a grievous colonial past that is still very much alive and intruding into the present.
The land on which we stand is the territory of many nations, including Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee and Wendat peoples, and it's in that spirit that I'm delighted to be joined by four writers of different backgrounds and generations whose work goes, well, just a little way to reflecting the cities, indeed this country's diverse and exciting, though sometimes fragmented literary scene.
Adriana Chartrand is a mixed race Metis author raised in Winnipeg, now resident in Toronto, whose gritty first novel and ordinary Violence conveys some of the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous people's lives here, in a story imbued with foreboding and horror.
Dawn Gilmore is a prize winning author of fiction and nonfiction whose most recent novel, Breaking and Entering, wryly presents a sometimes cringe worthy Toronto of middle class aspiration.
Catherine Hernandez is a writer of Filipino, Chinese, Spanish and Indian heritage married into the Navajo Nation.
She's an author and screenwriter whose first novel, Scarborough won over Canadians with a rich plethora of multiracial characters and its dynamic evocation of the vital Toronto neighborhood of the book's title.