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Writer's Corner
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Starts: Sunday, November 23
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Ends: Sunday, November 23
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EPL's Writer in Residence, Jason Lee Norman, hosts a friendly gathering with a different topic, activity or guest speaker each month. Come to talk about your writing in a supportive atmosphere and listen to the suggestions of fellow writers in our community. All writers and readers are welcome. No experience is necessary. Zarqa Nawaz is best known as the creator of the CBC television series Little Mosque on the Prairie and has recently released a collection of stories about her own life, Laughing All the Way to the Mosque.
Born in Liverpool and raised in Toronto, Nawaz already had a Bachelor of Science degree from U of T when she realized that staying out of medical school would be her greatest contribution to Canada's health care system. Unfazed, she coolly switched career plans and received a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism from Ryerson in 1992.
Nawaz worked as a freelance writer/broadcaster with CBC radio, and in various capacities with CBC Newsworld, CTV’s Canada AM, and CBC’s The National. She was an associate producer with a number of CBC radio programs including Morningside, and her radio documentary The Changing Rituals of Death won first prize in the Radio Long Documentary category and the Chairman’s Award in Radio Production at the Ontario Telefest Awards.
Little Mosque on the Prairie brought Nawaz’s own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. And now, in Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society.
Join us at the Edmonton Public Library as Zarqa Nawaz shares some of her stories, answers your questions, and signs copies of her book, Laughing All the Way to the Mosque.
Sunday, Nov 23 at 1:30 pm
Edmonton Room, Stanley A Milner Library
Contact EPL's Writer in Residence for more information:
Email: jnorman@epl.ca
Phone: 780-496-5999
Event Location
Stanley A. Milner Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 2V4