David Chariandy

David Chariandy (* 1969 in Scarborough , Metropolitan Toronto) is an English-language Canadian author. His debut novel Soucouyant , published in 2007, received several awards and was nominated for various literary prizes ( Amazon.ca First Novel Award , Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize , 2007). These included Canada's premier book award, the Governor General's Award for Fiction , the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award , the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and others. For Brother , Chariandy was awarded the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2017 and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2018. In 2019 Chariandy received a Windham – Campbell Literature Prize in the “Fiction” category.

In 2006 Chariandy founded together with Wayde Compton and Karina Vernon the first Afro-Canadian publishing house under the name "Commodore Books".

Chariandy lives in Vancouver, Canada and teaches literature at Simon Fraser University .

Works

Soucouyant . 2007
- Übers. Melanie Walz : The Caribbean demon. Novel. Suhrkamp, 2009
Austin Clarke : In this city. (Exile Classics, 10). Preface by David Chariandy. Exile Ed., University of Michigan 2010 ISBN 1550961063
Harold Sonny Ladoo: No pain like this body. 1972. Foreword by Dionne Brand . Anansi, Toronto 2003; again with a preface by David Chariandy, ibid. 2013
Brother. McClelland & Stewart , Toronto 2017; Bloomsbury Publishing , 2018 ISBN 1408897261 (separate edition for USA / GB)
- This book took part in the competition of Canada Reads / Le combat des livres , anglophone division, 2019

Sylvia Langwald: “My history is a foreign word”. Diasporic Generationality and David Chariandy's "Soucouyant", review in Journal for Canada Studies , 2016, pp. 108 - 122 full text

personal data
SURNAME	Chariandy, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Scarborough , Metropolitan Toronto