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<div><font size="2">To close off our exciting Journeys theme for this year's Reading Series at St Jerome's, we're delighted to feature two local global authors!<br>
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Please join us for readings by Pamela Mordecai and Tasneem Jamal <b>at 4:30pm on Friday 31 March in SJ1 3027.</b><br>
Our opening act for this reading will be Suzanne Heeg.<br>
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<font size="2">Pamela (Pam) Mordecai writes poetry and long and short fiction. In 2015, her first novel,
<i>Red Jacket</i>, was shortlisted for the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and Mawenzi House published her sixth book of poetry,
<i>de book of Mary</i>. She also writes poetry, plays and stories for children and is committed to the use of her heart language, Jamaican Creole, in her work. Born in Jamaica and educated there and in the USA, Pam and her family moved to Canada in 1993. She
lives in Kitchener, Ontario.<br>
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Tasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1975. She has worked as a journalist for over a decade at a number of Canadian newspapers, including
<i>The Globe and Mail</i> and <i>National Post</i>. In 2014, her debut novel, <i>
Where the Air Is Sweet</i>, was published to critical acclaim. That same year, the CBC named Tasneem one of 12 rising CanLit stars on its annual list of Writers to Watch.</font></div>
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The reading is free and all are welcome. Please spread the word!<br>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Please visit us at </span><a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</a><br style="font-size: 12.8px;">
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<i style="font-size: 12.8px;">We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.<br>
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</i></font></div>
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