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Canadian Bengali Literary Festival
July 20, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
The Toronto Bengali community will be hosting a literary festival on Saturday, July 20, at St. Paul’s United Church, 200 McIntosh St., from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The event features honoured Bengali-originated authors now in Canada, writing in English or Bengali or both. Authors come from the Toronto area of course, but also from Vancouver, Windsor, Montreal, Halifax, and elsewhere. In addition to the Bengali authors, three former Toronto Poet Laureates will attend as honoured guests: A.F. Moritz, Anne Michaels and George Elliott Clarke.
Moritz will take part in a a short onstage interview with Momo Qazi, the translator of Moritz’s selected poems, The Sparrow, in Bengali, followed by a reading of the poem “Cleanliness,” first in English by Moritz, and then in Bengali by Qazi.