Orion Lectures: Anosh Irani Author, playwright “Building Character in Fiction”
The Orion
Lecture Series in Fine Arts
Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:

Anosh Irani
Author, Playwright
“Building Character in Fiction”
2:30 pm Friday , February 7
Room 103, UVic’s Fine Arts Building
Free & open to all
Presented by UVic’s Department of Writing.
For more information, please email writing@uvic.ca
Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, UVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts is pleased to present Anosh Irani, Visiting Artist. All are welcome to attend this free event.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anosh Irani was born and brought up in Bombay before moving to Vancouver in 1998, where he teaches creative writing at SFU’s World Literature Program. He has published four critically acclaimed and bestselling novels: The Cripple and His Talismans (2004), The Song of Kahunsha (2006), Dahanu Road (2010) and The Parcel (2016). The Parcel was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Globe and Mail, National Post, CBC, The Walrus and Quill & Quire. His work has been translated into 11 languages, his short stories have appeared in Granta and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and his nonfiction has been published in the New York Times.
His 2006 play Bombay Black won five Dora Awards (including for Outstanding New Play) and his anthology The Bombay Plays: The Matka King & Bombay Black was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Drama. The Matka King received a Jessie Award nomination (Outstanding Original Script), as did his 2018 play, The Men in White — which was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Drama.
His latest play, Behind the Moon, is running at Victoria’s Belfry Theatre from Feb 4 to March 2.
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For more information on this lecture, please email visualarts@uvic.ca
About the Orion Fund
Established through the generous gift of an anonymous donor, the Orion Fund in Fine Arts is designed to bring distinguished visitors from other parts of Canada—and the world—to the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Fine Arts, and to make their talents and achievements available to faculty, students, staff and the wider Greater Victoria community who might otherwise not be able to experience their work.
The Orion Fund also exists to encourage institutions outside Canada to invite regular faculty members from our Faculty of Fine Arts to be visiting artists/scholars at their institutions; and to make it possible for Fine Arts faculty members to travel outside Canada to participate in the academic life of foreign institutions and establish connections and relationships with them in order to encourage and foster future exchanges.

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