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Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions)
Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimicikamak community that fought against it.
Northern Light is Ali s story, the story of the Pimicikamak community and the story of a town that no longer exists.
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The Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story will be held June 4-6 with a line-up of eight award-winning Canadian authors. It will be held virtually.
The three-day virtual event features six author readings, two writing master classes and the awards ceremony for the festival’s annual short story contest.
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David Adams Richards will launch the festival on June 4 with a reading and conversation about his new novel, Darkness. He is one of only three writers to have won in both the fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General’s Award. He is a co-winner of the 2000 Giller Prize for his novel Mercy Among the Children. In 2009, Richards was made a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2017 Richards was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.