David Chariandy is a Canadian novelist and educator.
Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Chariandy, whose parents emigrated from Trinidad, is of mixed African and South Asian descent. In his writing, Chariandy has drawn on his life to explore the complexities of being young, working-class, and racialized in Canada.
Chariandy has won the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2018 Toronto Book Award, the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the 2019 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Fiction. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. and teaches at Simon Fraser University.
David Chariandy's Brother is a 2017 coming-of-age novel about Michael, a child of Trinidadian immigrants who struggles to come to terms with the police killing of his older brother.
Set in the Park, a low-income multicultural neighborhood in...
