• Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love

  • Nov 13 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
  • Podcast

Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love

  • Summary

  • When Montreal author Eric Chacour wrote his first book, he didn't expect it to become a huge hit in France. Translated from French to English by Pablo Strauss, What I Know About You is a novel set in Cairo and Montreal, exploring sexuality as well as family secrets and pressures. It's nominated for this year's Giller Prize and Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Eric and Mattea Roach discuss the inspiration behind his debut novel.

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