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Neil Bissoondath

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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

Soulofallgreatdesign The Soul of All Great Designs

1417_resize_of_clameur La Clameur des ténèbres

Clamour The Unyielding Clamour of the Night

189695135x Doing the Heart Good

1269_baume Un baume pour le coeur

0676972381.01._scmzzzzzzz_ Worlds Within Her, The

Innocence of Age, The

Selling Illusions

English

Trinidadian

1955

Trinidad