photo by Terry Byrnes

Trinidad-born Neil Bissoondath has won many prizes for his fiction and non-fiction, including the MacLennan Prize for Fiction for Doing the Heart Good and The Unyielding Clamour of the Night. He has been a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Bissoondath came to prominence in 1985 with the publication of Digging Up the Mountains, a book of short stories, and a A Casual Brutality, a novel set in the Caribbean, published in 1988. His 1994 polemic, Selling Illusions: the Cult of Multiculturalism, stirred controversy when it questioned conventional Canadian thinking on the subject. Bissoondath lives in Quebec City, where he teaches creative writing at Université Laval.

Books by Neil Bissoondath

The Soul of All Great Designs

La Clameur des ténèbres

The Unyielding Clamour of the Night

Doing the Heart Good

Un baume pour le coeur

Worlds Within Her, The

Innocence of Age, The

Selling Illusions