Kamal Al-Solaylee featured Writers’ Trust author

Author will speak about his memoir

Kamal Al-Solaylee, the author of Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, is the featured author in a new Writers’ Trust of Canada initiative, the Authors’ Series.

“It’s a big deal for me,” says Al-Solaylee.

His book, which was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for non-fiction, is set in the Middle East and Canada.

“It’s about my relationship with my family,” Al-Solaylee told Xtra in 2012. “It’s about coming out as a gay man in the Middle East, then pursuing the life I wanted for myself.”

See the full interview below.

Kamal Al-Solaylee in the Authors’ Series

Wed, March 20, 1:30-3pm

Women’s Art Association of Canada

23 Prince Arthur Ave

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