Jamaican Author to read at London Library
Award-winning Jamaican-born Canadian author, Horane Smith, will read from his collection of six published novels at the London Public Library in Ontario, as part of Black History Month activities.
The reading takes place at London’s Central Library, 251 Dundas Street, on Tuesday February 26, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Smith’s 2001 novel Underground to Freedom is a story of the Underground Railroad to Canada, while his popular novel Lover’s Leap: Based on the Jamaican Legend and its sequel, the 2006 USA Booknews Best Book Award Finalist Dawn at Lover’s Leap, and Port Royal, deal with slavery and pirates in the Caribbean.
He has also written on lynchings in the U.S. in the 2003 novel The Lynching Stream, and reggae music in Reggae Silver (2005).
Smith received the inaugural BURLA Award in 2004, for his outstanding contribution to African-Canadian and Caribbean Literature. He has also been recognized by the Jamaica Diaspora Foundation Canada for his contribution to Jamaican literature.
His seventh novel Seven Days in Jamaica will be published by Rain Books in the fall. More information on his books can be found at http://www.horanesmith.com/.
Award-winning Jamaican-born Canadian author, Horane Smith, will read from his collection of six published novels at the London Public Library in Ontario, as part of Black History Month activities.
The reading takes place at London’s Central Library, 251 Dundas Street, on Tuesday February 26, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Smith’s 2001 novel Underground to Freedom is a story of the Underground Railroad to Canada, while his popular novel Lover’s Leap: Based on the Jamaican Legend and its sequel, the 2006 USA Booknews Best Book Award Finalist Dawn at Lover’s Leap, and Port Royal, deal with slavery and pirates in the Caribbean.
He has also written on lynchings in the U.S. in the 2003 novel The Lynching Stream, and reggae music in Reggae Silver (2005).
Smith received the inaugural BURLA Award in 2004, for his outstanding contribution to African-Canadian and Caribbean Literature. He has also been recognized by the Jamaica Diaspora Foundation Canada for his contribution to Jamaican literature.
His seventh novel Seven Days in Jamaica will be published by Rain Books in the fall. More information on his books can be found at http://www.horanesmith.com/.
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