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Cyril Dabydeen
A superb collection from one of Canada's acclaimed short story writers. Cyril Dabydeen's Forgotten Exiles presents vibrant, humorous, and emotionally charged stories that explore displacement, identity, and belonging. Drawing on…
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From the jungles of Guyana to the urban jungle of Ottawa, Cyril Dabydeen’s My Multi-Ethnic Friends & Other Stories highlights the struggles of immigrant life in a society that talks…
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Winner of the Guyanna Prize, Fiction, 2006 Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2007 Finalist for the Ottawa Book Awards, English Fiction, 2006
In a central park in…
Cyril Dabydeen writes with lyric grace, but perhaps his most characteristic voice is conversational, often witty and amused in its sharing of experiences as diverse as the incidents of travel…
With a clarity drawn from careful craft, this collection of poems features 30 years of work from a Guyanese Canadian deeply immersed in the transformations of the immigrant experience and…
A finely observed comedy of manners, this novel presents an imaginative and poetic play on the symbols of Hinduism in a secular and cosmopolitan society. Devan, a teacher of Hinduism…
Folk belief confronts rationalistic science in this poetic fable that sees events through both European and village eyes. Set in the remote Canje region, the villagers feel that they have…
Critics have called Dabydeen a short story master, and in this latest collection, his stories of life in Guyana are interspersed with the urban landscape of Canada where Dabydeen has…
Caribbean literature has always been exciting and diverse, including over the past decades some of the world’s most highly regarded writers. Reflecting a changing world, and admitting diverse cultural influences…
Cyril Dabydeen brings a poet's vision to these stories which span the crossing between the Caribbean and North America. They have a surface of gritty realism, but move inwards to…
These closely observed stories, with their gritty poetic descriptions and finely ironic twists, confront Dabydeen’s Asian and Caribbean-South American identity with his experience of life in Canada, where he has…
