Luminato: Spotlight on New South Asian Writing

*Tickets $10.00 available Ticketmaster, TO Tix in Yonge-Dundas Square or at the door one hour before while quantities last.

An evening of readings and discussion from new South Asian voices of the Diaspora exploring the nature of exile and belonging through poetry and fiction.

Join host, Shyam Selvadurai, bestselling Canadian author of Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens, and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, for an evening featuring three authors' very different perspectives on the cultures of South Asia and the West.

Hear readings from British poet Daljit Nagra (Look We Have Coming to Dover!), winner of the 2007 UK Forward Poetry Prize for best new collection; Canadian author Jaspreet Singh, whose new book Chef explores the complexity of Kashmir; and Padma Viswanathan (The Toss of a Lemon), one of Random House of Canada's New Faces of Fiction, 2008.