Lawrence Hill Interview on Bookninja

Intellectual, author and activist Lawrence Hill has received all sorts of rave reviews for his latest work. If you enjoyed Aaron’s review of The Book of Negroes, then you will absolutely love the latest interview podcast over at Bookninja Magazine. The wonderful Canadian literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse sits down with the talented Hill at the CBC in Toronto and talks with him about growing up biracial in Don Mills, Ontario, his experience as a young man volunteering in Africa, how he came upon the idea for The Book of Negroes, as well as his non-fiction book The Deserter’s Tale, which has been reviewed previously here on InkNoire.

This is a remarkable interview that highlights the dynamic history of Black slavery in Africa, the US and Canada. You can download/listen to the interview here. While you’re at it, click on the ad to purchase or learn more about the novel. Props to G on this one.

The Book of Negroes is available now in Canadian bookstores. American InkNoire readers will have to wait until November 2007 for the book to be released in the US.