Danielle Daniel is an award-winning author and illustrator. Like many Francophones with origins in Quebec, she shares an ancestral link to the people who inspired Daughters of the Deer, a first novel that springs from the story of what happened to the daughter of an Algonquin woman and a soldier/settler from France. She holds an MFA in […]
Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes, and he repeatedly escaped death at the hands of Nazis by hiding in the Polish forest. The Boy in the Woods is a remarkable story of a man who survived war and emerged as a celebrated artist. About Author Talks Mississauga Library’s […]
A Toronto-based writer, Zalika Reid-Benta’s story collection Frying Plantain won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Frying Plantain was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, and the Trillium Book Award. She received an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia and her first novel River Mumma […]
Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, is a New York Times Summer Reads Pick and a finalist for The Scotiabank Giller Prize. The book was longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The Toronto Book Award. Born and raised in Nepal, Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan […]
Hallway Gallery: October 16 – November 5 White Studio: October 20 –  22 Opening reception: Friday, October 20 from 4 - 8 pm Join Visual Arts Mississauga at our opening reception on Friday October 20th! View the artwork, participate in a free portrait drawing activity, help us paint a collaborative painting, take in a story time by […]