Rajinderpal Pal
BIO
Biography

Rajinderpal S. Pal is a writer and performer based in Toronto. Pal's debut novel, However Far Away, was published by House of Anansi in August 2024 and was long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads 2025. Pal’s first collection of poetry, pappaji wrote poetry in a language i cannot read (TSAR, 1998), was the winner of the 1999 Writer’s Guild of Alberta (WGA) Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book. Pal’s second collection, pulse (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002), was short-listed for both the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the WGA Stephan G Stephansson Award for Best Book of Poetry. Pal has performed his work across Canada, at Vancouver Writers Festival 2024, at Hugh's Room Live in Toronto, and Festival Hall in Calgary. 

 

ADDRESS
City: Toronto, Province/Territory: Ontario
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GENRE
Literary Fiction
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
However Far Away
Publisher
House of Anansi
Year
2024
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Fiction and Poetry
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Readings or panel discussions.

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EQUITY INITIATIVE
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Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
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