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Fresh off his second Pulitzer Prize, one of America's most influential and decorated writers discusses his latest, award-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, in this exclusive Canadian digital event.

Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel The Underground Railroad earned the praise of cultural leaders like President Obama and won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In his follow-up, The Nickel Boys, the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer, Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history. Through the gripping story of Elwood Curtis, a black teenager unfairly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida, Whitehead once again mines the past to speak to the present, shining a light on the darkest corners of American criminal justice. Growing in urgency and relevance as it approaches its paperback release, this instant classic may be the most forceful demonstration yet of the powers of imagination and compassion that make Whitehead one of the essential voices of our time. As Time put it when he graced its cover last year: he is "America's Storyteller."

Conversation moderated by Elamin Abdelmahmoud.

The video stream will be available as of 7:00 PM EST and the conversation will begin shortly afterwards.