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	Up-and-coming: Neil Bissoondath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bissoondath, however, writes with the sharpness and lack of sentimentality of a younger generation born in a world where tradition and the family no longer provide the guidelines for living or the means for survival.
		One review began by saying that Neil Bissoondath is not the writer that his Uncle V. Naipaul is. Well, I was pleased to see that because Neil Bissoondath is the writer that Neil Bissoondath is. But this person went on to say that my writing was not as good as my uncle’s.
		Bissoondath: I think on a purely practical level, it is simply a question of how much space you have to move around in, how many characters you have space to deal with, and whether the story itself is large enough to require a greater length.
	aurora.icaap.org /archive/bissoondath.html (3072 words)

	Neil Bissoondath
		Neil Bissoondath's characters are mostly disillusioned immigrants who restlessly wander the "promised land" of North America, all the while hungering for the imperfect happy isles they fled.
		For Bissoondath, it's all about being true to the central philosophy which runs through all his writings: that individuals should have the freedom - from the culture and circumstances into which they are born - to shape themselves in the image and likeness of their choice.
		Bissoondath followed that with The Age of Innocence in which middle-aged immigrants try to hold on to the stability o the simple routines they have created even as their offspring get entangled in worlds they don't comprehend.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/NeilBissoondath.htm (1485 words)

	Neil Bissoondath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neil Devindra Bissoondath (born 1955 in Trinidad) is an Egypt ian- Canadian author who was lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec.
		Neil Bissoondath: Hungering for an Imperfect Homeland Interview by Celia Sankar.
		The Worlds Within Neil Interview, focusing on Bissoondath's novel, 'The Worlds Within Her'.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Neil_Bissoondath.html (300 words)

	Neil Bissoondath : biographie, bibliographie, critiques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neil Bissoondath est né à Trinidad en 1955, d'une troisième génération d'immigrants indiens.
		Neil Bissoondath a reçu le Prix Spirale pour Le Marché aux illusions en 1995, et le prix du meilleur roman de la QSPELL pour Worlds within her en 1999.
		Bissoondath nous livre ce récit avec une remarquable spontanéité, en partie grâce à la discontinuité temporelle de son récit.
	www.ratsdebiblio.net /bissoondathneil.html (1522 words)

	Varsity Arts & Culture -- The Worlds Within Neil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neil Bissoondath's latest novel, The Worlds Within Her, explores the return of Yasmin to her birthplace of Trinidad.
		Under the guise of merely interring her mother Shakti's ashes, the three-day haj is the return of a culturally-starved daughter of Trinidad, a journey of rediscovering her roots.
		Bissoondath is busy at work on a new novel, one which, he says, is unlike anything he has had published, devoid of any of those common themes.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/119/oct29/review/the.html (593 words)

	Du coeur en baume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mais cette fois, dans son tout dernier roman, qui sortira en librairie le 7 novembre, Neil Bissoondath nous décrit un autre monde en retrait, celui des âges et des souvenirs.
		Neil Bissoondath est né à Trinidad, mais vit depuis 30 ans au Canada, d’abord à Toronto puis à Montréal et à Québec où il enseigne la littérature.
		Mais il y a aussi beaucoup de gens qui réagissent de façon personnelle », déplore Neil Bissoondath, qui insiste pour dire que « c’est à chacun de nous de faire l’effort, de refuser de se laisser aller dans cette direction.
	www.alternatives.ca /imprimer16.html (865 words)

	75 Readings Plus, Canadian Edition \| Neil Bissoondath
		Here is a short biography and large photo of Bissoondath, presented by Vehicule Press.
		Bissoondath discusses his life as it relates to his work in "Le droit d'être offensant" ("Right to be offensive"), translated from the French.
		Another work by Bissoondath, "No Place Like Home", is biographically-based, and focuses on the idea of nationality and "home".
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/007089194x/student_view0/authors-999/neil_bissoondath.html (261 words)

	Selling Illusions - Neil Bissoondath - Penguin Books
		Since he immigrated to Canada almost three decades ago, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec.
		Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, discourages the full loyalty of Canada's citizens.
		Selling Illusions is Neil Bissoondath's personal exploration of a politically motivated public policy with profound private ramifications - a policy flawed from its inception but nonetheless implemented with unmatched zeal.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141006765,00.html (1364 words)

	Harbourfront Reading Series: Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neil Bissoondath writes "powerfully compressed tales of distorted nationalism and cultural divorce" (Washington Post Book World).
		With sensitivity and precision, Bissoondath captures the emotional turmoil of men and women forced to submit to the oppression, and often violence, of their society.
		His latest novel, Doing the Heart Good, is the story of a seventy-year-old anglophone Montrealer who, after a lifetime of refusing to speak French, finds himself obliged to live with his daughter and her bilingual family after his house is destroyed in a fire.
	www.readings.org /bios/bissoondath_n.html (109 words)

	Ottawa XPress - Books - Writers Fest - Neil Bissoondath
		Canadian author Neil Bissoondath wanted to dispel such myths when he wrote his latest novel, The Unyielding Clamour of the Night, a humanistic and timely character sketch of the would-be suicide bomber.
		Bissoondath is the author of several novels and one short story collection, but is well known for his one non-fiction best-seller, Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada.
		Bissoondath introduces us to an unlikely "hero." Arun is a quiet 21-year-old amputee who turns his back on a lucrative family publishing business to teach the impoverished children of Omeara.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=7295 (1411 words)

	Cormorant Books: Doing The Heart Good (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neil Bissoondath won the 2002 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction for Doing the Heart Good.
		In addition to this honour, Bissoondath's fiction has been nominated for many awards and prizes, including the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Books In Canada First Novel Award, and the Governor General's Literary Award.
		Neil Bissoondath lives in Quebec City with his wife and daughter.
	www.cormorantbooks.com /titles/doingtheheartgood_trade.htm (170 words)

	Radio-Canada: Choisir le français -Entrevues- Indicatif Présent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sergio Kokis et Neil Bissoondath viennent respectivement du Brésil et de Trinidad.
		Neil Bissoondath est arrivé dans un premier temps à Toronto.
		Neil Bissoondath a appris le français à l'école secondaire, à Trinidad.
	www.radio-canada.ca /radio/indicatifpresent/chroniques/48429.shtml (500 words)

	On The Eve Of Uncertain Tomorrows (Neil Bissoondath) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bissoondath heralds from Trinidad, but writes in English w/ amazing skill.
		This book of short stories envelopes the reader time and time again in highly 'readable' poetic flutters which prove integral as the tales are told.
		Bissoondath is expert at doing exactly this - filling in a lot of blanks w/ very little in the way of words.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0517582333.htm (107 words)

	Cormorant Books: Neil Bissoondath
		Neil Bissoondath's fiction has been nominated for and won many prizes, including the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Books In Canada First Novel Award, and the Governor General's Literary Award.
		Neil lives in Quebec City with his wife and daughter.
		"Bissoondath handles his theme and his characters with such dexterity and aplomb that it's hard to remember this is a first novel...a powerful and troubling novel."
	www.cormorantbooks.com /authors/bissoondathneil.htm (138 words)

	Doing The Heart Good, Neil Bissoondath
		Neil Bissoondath was born in Trinidad (he is the nephew of Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul) and is a longtime Quebec resident.
		It's a particularly significant issue for writers from minority groups, who are so often assumed to be speaking for "their people." Bissoondath has turned the tables on such assumptions before, and in Doing the Heart Good he emphatically does it again.
		But Bissoondath gives him dignity; furthermore his intractability provides much-needed tension, and makes his gradual softening towards his upstairs neighbour Tremblay genuinely meaningful.
	www.aelaq.org /mrb/feature.php?issue=7&article=109&cat=1 (1065 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Digging Up the Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the grim stories of Neil Bissoondath's Digging Up the Mountains, the personal is political and the political is usually explosive.
		Raised in Trinidad, Bissoondath has lived his adult life in Canada, and these two places are the poles between which most of his fiction shuttles, including the novels A Casual Brutality and The Worlds Within Her.
		What's most impressive about this early collection is the range of experiences and voices it explores: its protagonists include a Japanese girl, a European doctor wrenched by war from his family, a Canadian student backpacking abroad, a beauty-pageant contestant, and a white woman teaching boys at an island school.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771034792 (444 words)

	Radio-Canada: Une heure avec Neil Bissoondath -Entrevues- Indicatif Présent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neil Bissoondath est aujourd'hui professeur titulaire au Département de littérature et de création littéraire de l'Université Laval.
		Neil Bissoondath ne parle jamais de ses livres en cours d'écriture.
		Neil Bissoondath, Un baume pour le coeur, Éditions Boréal.
	www.radio-canada.ca /radio/indicatifpresent/chroniques/35752.shtml (255 words)

	MIGRATION - MULTICULTURALISM
		Neil Bissoondath uncovers the cracks in Canada's multicultural mosaic.
		I took a deep breath of the cooling evening air and knew, deep within my bones, that it was good to be home.
		Neil Bissoondath is a writer of four fictional books plus Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada.
	www.newint.org /issue305/multiculturalism.html (2265 words)

	Neil Bissoondath - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Neil Bissoondath - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Neil Bissoondath contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Neil_Bissoondath (137 words)

	He says: 'I believe in the ability of the individual to shape one's own life,' and criticizes the government's ...
		Many intellectuals in the Canadian West Indian community have scorned Bissoondath, saying that he has turned his back on his roots and arguing that his call for color-blindness is naïve.He says: 'I believe in the ability of the individual to shape one's own life,' and criticizes the government's financing of e..
		V. Naipaul, an immigrant from Trinidad who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature, advised his nephew, Neil Bissoondath, to follow him to Canada, but not to make race "the center of your worldview." Bissoondath followed his advice and became a writer.
		Many intellectuals in the Canadian West Indian community have scorned Bissoondath, saying that he has turned his back on his roots and arguing that his call for color-blindness is naïve.
	www.migrationint.com.au /news/marshall_islands/sep_2002-04mn.asp (1101 words)

	UdeM:Forum/«Mes racines sont dans mes poches» - Neil Bissoondath, ou le culte de l'individualité
		Pour Neil Bissoondath, il est impossible de décrire une identité collective autrement que par des stéréotypes qui eux sont la base du racisme.
		Neil Bissoondath dit comprendre le sens d'appartenance des Québécois mais ne pas saisir que l'on s'identifie à la seule histoire.
		Neil Bissoondath en veut pour preuve les propos d'une Québécoise - qu'il considère néanmoins comme une amie - qui lui suggérait de s'abstenir de voter au référendum puisqu'il s'agissait de l'avenir des Québécois.
	www.forum.umontreal.ca /numeros/1996-1997/Forum96-11-11/article01.html (905 words)

	On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows - Neil Bissoondath - Penguin Books
		In this expertly crafted book of short stories, his first since Digging up the Mountains, Neil Bissoondath evokes an exhilarating range of emotions.
		His gallery of characters, vividly brought to life by the precise and supple prose for which Bissoondath is renowned, is made up of strangers in strange lands, desperately hoping to find their tomorrows.
		Yet this is, above all, Neil Bissoondath's most hopeful book to date.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140159681,00.html?sym=REV (188 words)

	Neil Bissoondath Biography and Quotes Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		But the internationally acclaimed author himself feels no connection to Trinidad, the Caribbean island where he was born forty—five years ago.
		I've never had a single regret about leaving, or the slightest desire to return".
		Bissoondath today lives in Quebec City, where he is a member of the English literati and a lecturer at a French university.
	www.americas.oas.org /jul_art46.htm (263 words)

	Arts: Literature: World Literature: Canadian: Authors: Novelists: Bissoondath, Neil\| Treasure Coast Health
		Literary Montreal: Neil Bissoondath - Brief profile and photograph.
		The Worlds Within Neil - Interview, focusing on Bissoondath's novel, 'The Worlds Within Her'.
		Neil Bissoondath: Hungering for an Imperfect Homeland - Interview by Celia Sankar.
	www.tchealth.com /Resources-Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Canadian/Authors/Novelists/Bissoondath,_Neil (113 words)

	citzine.ca > Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Later, in 1937, she became the first woman to be admitted to corporate membership at the Engineering Institute of Canada.
		In Strong Voices, Alan Twigg, a Vancouver editor and critic, compiles 50 interviews (old and new) with Canadian authors including novelists Morley Callaghan, Mordecai Richler, Austin Clarke and Neil Bissoondath.
		Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay is also profiled as well as non-fiction writers and poets.
	www.citzine.ca /stuff.php?lng=e&sub=1&cid=135 (98 words)

	Éditions du Boréal
		Aussi bien n’y a-t-il pas de frontière étanche entre cet essai et les uvres de fiction de Bissoondath, où le thème de l’immigration, du déracinement, de l’arrivée dans un pays nouveau, et partout présent.
		Car Neil Bissoondath sait merveilleusement bien préserver l’existence propre et, quand il le faut, le mystère des personnages qui l’habitent.
		Rémy Charest, «Neil Bissoondath: Les carrefours migratoires», Le Devoir, 10-11 décembre 1994.
	www.editionsboreal.com /fr-press.php?file=690 (535 words)

	Neil Bissoondath's Complete List of Books
		Selling illusions: The cult of multiculturalism in Canada by Neil Bissoondath
		Un baume pour le coeur by Neil Bissoondath, Lori Saint-Martin, Paul GagnÃ©
		Tous ces mondes en elle by Neil Bissoondath
	www.3000authors.com /authors/Neil_Bissoondath.htm (51 words)

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		Neil Bissoondath was born in Arima, Trinidad in 1955.
		Bissoondath was educated at St. Mary’s College and York University.
		Bissoondath has won the Gordon Montador Award for the work Selling Illusions.
	core.ecu.edu /engl/deenas/Caribbean/NeilBissoondath.htm (97 words)

	Bissoondath, Neil in Arts > Literature > World Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Un baume pour le coeur - by Neil Bissoondath, et al
		Tous ces mondes en elle - by Neil Bissoondath
		Interview, focusing on Bissoondath's novel, 'The Worlds Within Her'.
	ilectric.com /glance/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Canadian/Authors/Novelists/Bissoondath,_Neil (123 words)

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