Author
Dimitri Nasrallah's novel, Niko, was nominated for CBC's Canada Reads and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and has been published in four languages. His debut, Blackbodying, won the Quebec's McAuslan First Book Prize. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing at Concordia University.
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