His novel Brother has just been made into a film, which will premiere this month at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and be screened in the fall at film festivals across Canada and internationally (including the Vancouver International Film Festival) before its theatrical release. His books have been published throughout the world and translated into a dozen languages. They have also animated broader public and scholarly discussions of diasporic identity, cultural memory, urban space, economic precarity, and racism.
He has also co-founded a small press, co-edited special editions of journals, mentored emerging writers, and written academic articles, book chapters, personal essays, and reviews.Ĭollectively, his writings have had a major impact upon the field of Black Canadian literature. “I am grateful to professor emeritus Carole Gerson and professor Deanna Reder for nominating me.”Īn award-winning and internationally celebrated author, Chariandy has written two novels, Soucouyant (2007) and Brother (2017), as well as a work of non-fiction entitled I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (2018). “I work with many extraordinary writers and scholars, and so I feel very honoured but also humbled about being named to the RSC,” says Chariandy.
He is one of two SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences professors elected to the RSC in 2022.
Writer and SFU English professor David Chariandy has received Canada’s highest academic honour-a Royal Society of Canada (RSC) fellowship.
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