# Canada Seminar #### calendar\_today Date and Time **September 16, 2013** 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie Vernon Room (K262)** ## "But What Should I Call You Then, If Not African-American?" ### Speaker: **Nalo Hopkinson,** *Author.* ### Contact: **Helen Clayton** ### Chair: **George Elliott Clarke,** *William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program.* E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto. Nalo Hopkinson, who was born in Jamaica, also lived in Trinidad and Guyana, and has lived in Canada for the past 30 years. She is the author of four novels and a short story collection (*Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, Skin Folk*). She is the editor of fiction anthologies *Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction*, and *Mojo: Conjure Stories*. She is the co-editor of fiction anthologies *So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction* (with Uppinder Mehan) and *Tesseracts Nine* (with Geoff Ryman). Hopkinson's work has received Honourable Mention in Cuba's "Casa de las Americas" literary prize. She is a recipient of the Warner Aspect First Novel Award, the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for emerging writers, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Locus Award for Best New Writer, the World Fantasy Award, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Aurora Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Her novel, *The New Moon's Arms*, is a February 2007 release from Warner/Hachette Books. See also:- [ 2013–2014 ](/academic-year/2013%E2%80%932014) - [ Canada Seminar ](/seminars/canada/schedule) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/74971/event-feed.ics) Copy link link