Bissoondath, Neil

About Neil Bissoondath


"Ruffling Foreign Feathers". Sunday Guardian, 2002 (August 18th) - article on Bissoondath, his stance towards multiculturalism and his work, with interview excerpts


Celia Sankar: Hungering for an imperfect homeland. Sunday Guardian, 2001 (February 25th) - introduction to author and interview



Reviews


DOING THE HEART GOOD


McNairn, Dana. Doing the Heart Good. See Magazine, 2002 (July, 11).


THE WORLDS WITHIN HER


Sandhu, Sukhdev. Chilled out in the Caribbean. The Observer, 2000 (13th of February).



Interviews

 

Aurora - journal of interviews (Athabasca University), 1989 - interview and introduction to author's work


Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk. Ich möchte kein Bindestrich-Kanadier sein. German radio station SWR, 2002 - script of radio broadcast combining information about author and author talking about himself



Criticism

 

Lamey, Andy. Bissoondath suffers from illusions. National Post Canada (30th Jily 2002) - Critical article on Bissoondath’s continuing disapproval of Canada's policy of multiculturalism



Writings by Bissoondath

 

ESSAYS/ ARTICLES


  • No Place like Home. New Internationalist, 1998 - Neil Bissoondath uncovers the cracks in Canada's multicultural mosaic

USEFUL SOURCES


Biographies:

 

Contemporary Writers

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Literary Reference Center

A Dictionary of Writers


Plot Summaries

 Kindlers Literatur Lexikon  

Literary Reference Center


Secondary Literature:

see Research Section


 

NOTE:

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