BOOKS
2019 Fatboy Fall Down. Novel; ECW Press
2018 Adjacentland. Novel;Wolsak &Wynn
2018 Luminous Ink. (Co-editor) Anthology; Cormorant
2010 The Amazing Absorbing Boy. Novel; Knopf Canada
2010 The Picture of Nobody. Novel; Good Reads/HarperCollins Canada
2005 A Perfect Pledge. Novel; Knopf Canada; Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (US); Mouria Press (Netherlands)
2002 The Book of Ifs and Buts. Short stories; Knopf Canada
2000 The Lagahoo’s Apprentice. Novel; Knopf Canada; İşbank Culture Publications (Turkey)
1997 Homer in Flight. Novel; Goose Lane Editions (Canada)
1996 The Writer and his Wife. Short stories; Peepal Tree Press (UK)
1995 The Interloper. Short stories; Goose Lane Editions (Canada)
AWARDS, PRIZES & NOMINATIONS
2020 Foreword Indies. Winner. Silver: Fatboy Fall Down
2019 Relit Awards: shortlisted. Foreword Indies: Literary, nominated, Adjacentland
2016 Canada Reads, longlisted, The Amazing Absorbing Boy
2013 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, honouring significant contributions & achievements by Canadians
2012 Lifetime Literary Award, from NALIS – Trinidad & Tobago’s National Library and Information Systems Authority
2012 SDMS. Indian Arrival Day Award (Trinidad), for body of work
2011 Toronto Book Award, winner, The Amazing Absorbing Boy
2011 Trillium Book Award, winner Best Book, The Amazing Absorbing Boy
2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, longlisted, The Amazing Absorbing Boy
2010 NOW Magazine and Uptown magazine, a Best Book, The Amazing Absorbing Boy
2005 Rogers/Writers’ Trust Prize, finalist Best Novel, A Perfect Pledge
2005 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, finalist, A Perfect Pledge
2005 Globe and Mail, a Best Book, A Perfect Pledge
2005 Toronto Star, a Best Book, A Perfect Pledge
2000 Globe and Mail, a Best Book, The Lagahoo’s Apprentice
2000 Toronto Star, Best Of Fiction List, The Lagahoo’s Apprentice
2000 Write Magazine, runner-up, Book of the Year, The Lagahoo’s Apprentice
1998 Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, finalist, Homer in Flight
1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, finalist Best First Book, The Interloper
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES, MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
Northwords (intro by Shelagh Rogers, Anansi, 2012) | City of Words (ed. Sarah Elton, Cormorant Books, 2009) | AWOL (ed. Jennifer Barclay & Amy Logan, Vintage Canada, 2003) | Victory Meat (ed. Lynn Coady, Anchor Canada, 2003) | TOK: Writing the New Toronto – book 2 (ed. Helen Walsh, Zephyr Press, 2007) | Reading Writers Reading (ed. Danielle Schaub, The University of Alberta Press, 2006) | Travel Anthology, and various issues of Descant, Exile, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Geist, The Antigonish Review, Toronto Review, Lichen, Matrix, Queen Street Quarterly, Caribbean Writer, Washington Post, Globe and Mail.
RADIO, FILM, & AUDIOBOOKS
2011 Film script for “Crabman and Sandbird”, writer
2010 “Northwords”, a documentary with Shelagh Rogers & others, for CBC (released in 2012) participant
2004 Film script for Malini, co-writer
2001 “Malcolm and Alvin”, a six-part radio drama, for CBC Radio
2000 Homer in Flight, BTC audiobooks
1999 Homer in Flight. CBC Radio’s “Between the Covers”
Forthcoming
Movie version of The Amazing Absorbing Boy
RESIDENCIES, TEACHING & MENTORING
2019 Doris McCarthy Centre for Artists. (January-March)
2017-2018 University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. Writer in Residence.
2016 Banff Writers Studio, Banff. Faculty.
2013 University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Writer in Residence
2007- University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. Instructor
2007 Humber School for Writers. Mentor
2006 Toronto Reference Library. Writer in Residence
2006 Diaspora Dialogues. Mentor
2001 – 2005 High school in Ontario. Teacher: English/Media/Writers Craft)
1980 – 1992 High school in Trinidad. Teacher
READINGS, EVENTS, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
Vancouver Writers’ Festival | Vancouver Public Library| International Festival of Authors Toronto | Harbourfront Reading Series | Miami Book Fair International/Writers Festival | Ottawa International Writers’ Festival | Bleu Metropolis | Word on the Street Toronto | Word on the Street Halifax | Words in Whitby Reading Series | Ontario Writers’ Conference | University of New Brunswick | University of Toronto | Queen’s University | University of the West Indies, St. Augustine | University of Western Ontario | York University | Bocas Literary Festival Trinidad | Pan-Asia Cultural Showcase | Festival of South Asian Literature and the Arts | and numerous other literary festivals, reading series, public libraries, bookstores, television & radio appearances.
JURIES & COMMITTEES
Among others: Writers’ Trust Authors Committee. Canada Council for the Arts Magazine Grants. Canada Council for the Arts Grants for Professional Writers. Ontario Arts Council. Trillium Awards. Diaspora Dialogues. Rogers Fiction Award. Toronto Arts Council.
EDITOR
1998 – 2001 LICHEN Literary Journal, Whitby, Ontario
Rabindranath Maharaj 