Neil Bissoondath

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Neil Devindra Bissoondath

V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul, grandson of Seepersad Naipaul, grandnephew of Rudranath Capildeo and Simbhoonath Capildeo, and cousin of Vahni Capildeo
.

Life and career

Bissoondath attended

Catholic
high school. He describes himself as not very religious and distrustful of dogma. In the early 1970s, political upheaval and economic collapse had created a climate of chaos and violence in the island nation.

In 1973, at the age of 18, Bissoondath left Trinidad and settled in Ontario, where he studied at York University and received a Bachelor of Arts in French in 1977. He then taught English and French at the Inlingua School of Languages and the Toronto Language Workshop. He won the McClelland and Stewart award and the National Magazine award, both in 1986, for the short story "Dancing". Bissoondath was interviewed by Ali Lakhani in the journal Rungh about his views on writing and life.[1]

Awards

He won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Gordon Montador Award in 1995 for Selling Illusions.[2]

Bissoondath has received honorary doctorates from

NALIS (National Library of Trinidad and Tobago) Lifetime Literary Achievement Award.[6]

Bibliography

Novels

Novella

  • Postcards from Hell – 2009

Short story collections

  • Digging Up Mountains – 1986
  • On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows – 1990

Non-fiction

  • Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada
     1994

See also

References

  1. ^ Lakhani, Ali (1993). "Escaping The Cultural Imperative". Rungh. 1 (4). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Rungh Cultural Society: 8–13 – via https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/rungh-1052/rungh-south-asian-quarterly-culture-comment-and-criticism-14-1993-page-8. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)
  2. Halifax Daily News
    , May 5, 1995.
  3. ^ Nishat Karim, "York presents new honorary doctorates at spring convocation 1999", York University Gazette, Vol. 29, No. 33, June 9, 1999.
  4. ^ "Immigrants should help preserve culture, says author", Canada Immigration, May 29, 2008.
  5. ^ "Neil Bissoondath - Chevalier (2010)", Ordre national du Québec.
  6. ^ Neil Bissoondath biography Archived October 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine at NALIS.

External links

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