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ANITA ANAND is an author, translator, and language teacher from Montreal. She is the author of Swing in the House and Other Stories, which won the 2015 Concordia University First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Relit Award for Fiction and the Montreal Literary Diversity Prize. Her novel, A Convergence of Solitudes, was nominated for the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. Her previous translations include Nirliit by Juliana Lveill-Trudel, which was nominated for the 2018 John Glassco Prize, and Lightness by Fanie Demeule.
"""From the seed of a love-match marriage in Partition-era India, people from multiple cultures collide and converge amid the ferment of their new home's late-20th century nationalist movement. It's an ambitious act of narrative plate-spinning that Anand pulls off with aplomb. As the title's echo of Hugh MacLennan hints, A Convergence of Solitudes presents a new way of looking at Quebec."" —Montreal Gazette ""A polyphonic novel that flits in and out of the consciousnesses of a central cast of characters, all of whom are united in a common search for belonging and meaning."" —That Shakespearean Rag “A serious and ambitious book that manages to weave together complicated strands of personal and cultural history, A Convergence of Solitudes is both a beautiful and compelling contemporary Canadian novel.” —The Miramichi Reader"
