Véhicule Showcase: Who Gets Remembered?
Located in the Rotunda, Casa d’Italia
What do a coming-of-age novel that takes place in Bombay, a collection of essays on forgotten women jazz musicians, and a novel that celebrates Montreal and a ghost have in common? All three books are amazing and entertaining acts of remembering or recovery. Come and meet Zeenat Nagree (My Summer Vacation), David Homel (translator of Black Satin by Stanley Péan), and Éric Dupont (The Colour of Time, or the Incredible Story of Mary Gallagher) in conversation with Dimitri Nasrallah.
With:
- Zeenat Nagree
- David Homel
- Éric Dupont
Zeenat Nagree is an independent writer and curator who grew up in Bombay and now divides her time between India and Canada. Having studied art history in Chicago, she writes on contemporary art and curates exhibitions. My Summer Vacation is her first book.
David Homel is the author of ten novels and a memoir, as well as a series of books for younger readers co-written with Marie-Louise Gay. A prize-winning writer and translator, he has worked in documentary film, print and radio journalism. He lives in Montreal.
Born in Amqui, Quebec, Éric Dupont studied at Carleton University, the Free University of Berlin, the Université de Montréal and the University of Toronto. Dupont’s La fiancée américaine, released in 2012, won the Prix des libraires du Québec and the Prix littéraire des collégiens. Its English translation, Songs for the Cold of Heart, translated by Peter McCambridge, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2018 and subsequently published by HarperCollins outside of Canada as The American Fiancée. Éric Dupont lives in Montreal.
Moderator:
Dimitri Nasrallah is the author of four novels, including Hotline, a Canadian bestseller that was long-listed for the 2022 Giller Prize and was a 2023 finalist for Canada Reads. Nasrallah was born in Lebanon in 1977, during the country’s civil war, and moved to Canada in 1988. His previous books include The Bleeds (2018); Niko (2011), which won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction; and Blackbodying (2005), which won Quebec’s McAuslan First Book Prize. His books have also been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Nasrallah was the fiction editor of Esplanade Books from 2013 to 2025, and currently teaches creative writing at Concordia University. He lives in Montreal.