Alfabet/Alphabet

Alfabet/Alphabet

Sadiqa de Meijer
$14.95
Publication Date: October 1st, 2020
Publisher:
Anstruther
ISBN:
9781989287606
Pages:
100

Description

Literary Nonfiction. ALFABET/ALPHABET is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer's transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience in ALFABET/ALPHABET, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.

About the Author

Sadiqa de Meijer is the author of the poetry collections Leaving Howe Island and The Outer Wards. Her work has won the CBC Poetry Prize and Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario.