Michael Power/St. Joseph High School: Anthony De Sa

Anthony De Sa: TORONTO - Anthony De Sa is a man with a mighty memory. He vividly remembers, for example, the reception from his students when he returned to Toronto's Michael Power/St. Joseph High School, where he taught English, after attending the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala as a finalist. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Being nominated for one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards for his debut will do that. Now, five years after "Barnacle Love," an interconnected collection of short stories about a Portuguese-Canadian family, he's exploring his community even more deeply with "Kicking the Sky," a novel inspired by a murder that De Sa says marked an indelible end to the era of "Toronto the Good." Anthony De Sa's "Kicking the Sky" is shown in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ho "They all stood up and they clapped," he said in an interview, sitting in an office that looms above the city he's lived in all his life. "And then after that boy, did they listen." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.