David Chariandy is a Canadian novelist and educator. Born in Scarborough, Ontario in 1969, Chariandy's parents emigrated from Trinidad earlier in the 1960s. He 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's first novel, Soucouyant, was published in 2007. It was shortlisted and longlisted for eleven literary awards. His second novel, Brother, was published in 2017 and 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. In 2018,...
