Danny Ramadan

Danny Ramadan is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian author and LGBTQ-refugees activist.
The Clothesline Swing, Ramadan’s debut novel, won the Independent Publisher Book Award for LGBT Fiction, The Canadian Authors Association’s award for Best Fiction, and was shortlisted for Evergreen Award, Sunburst Award and a Lambda Award. It was long listed for Canada Reads 2018. The novel is translated to French, German and Hebrew. His children's book, Salma the Syrian Chef, was released in March 2020 by Annick Press. He lives with his husband, Matthew Ramadan, in Vancouver.