Orange for the Sunsets

With Tina Athaide

Hosted by Zulfikar Hirji Podcast Fiction

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Wednesday

Nov , 2022

2:15pm

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Tina Athaide

This podcast is presented in conjunction with the Beyond Resettlement conference hosted by Carleton University (November 14-16, 2022).

We present the the third and final of our special episodes hosted by York University’s Zulfikar Hirji and presented in collaboration with Carleton University’s Beyond Resettlement Conference.

Born in Uganda, Tina Athaide immigrated with her family to Canada from England and has been a teacher for thirty years. Her debut novel, Orange for the Sunsets. The Middle Grade book is a Junior Library Guild Selection and winner of the CCBC Geoffrey Bilson award for historical fiction for young readers.

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The Authors

Tina Athaide

Tina Athaide was born in Entebbe. After leaving Uganda she immigrated with her family to Canada from England. She has been a teacher for thirty years. Believing that books can present different experiences to children in an organic, natural way, she started publishing early literacy readers for the educational market before her debut book, Orange for the Sunsets. The Middle Grade book is a Junior Library Guild Selection and winner of the CCBC Geoffrey Bilson award for historical fiction for young readers. In 2021 she published her debut picture book Meena’s Mindful Moment and is currently working on a Middle Grade book in verse about an Indian family expelled from Uganda and sent to a resettlement camp in England.