Neil Bissoondath

Neil Bissoondath, born in 1955 in Arima, on the island of Trinidad, into an Indian family settled in the West Indies, nephew of the writer V. S. Naipaul, emigrated to Toronto in 1973 and studied French at York University. A language teacher, he settled in Quebec City in 1995 and teaches creative writing at Laval University, writing in English in a French-speaking city. His 1994 essay against official multiculturalism, which he accuses of confining immigrants to their origins, set off a national debate.

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• NovelA Casual BrutalityNeil Bissoondath · 1988Literature