Description: Robin, photographed at Ajax waterfront, June, 2011. (Photo: Michelle Siu/The Globe and Mail) Rabindranath Maharaj is the award-winning author of the novels: Fatboy Fall Down (2019, ECW Press; Winner of the 2019 Foreword Indies Silver Medal for Literary Fiction); Adjacentland (2018, Wolsak and Wynn; shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award); The Amazing Absorbing Boy (2010,…
Rabindranath Maharaj is the award-winning author of the novels: Fatboy Fall Down (2019, ECW Press; Winner of the 2019 Foreword Indies Silver Medal for Literary Fiction); Adjacentland (2018, Wolsak and Wynn; shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award); The Amazing Absorbing Boy (2010, Knopf Canada; winner of the 2010 Trillium Book Award, the 2011 Toronto Book Award, and voted a CBC Canada Reads Top 10 for Ontario); A Perfect Pledge (2005, Knopf Canada; Farrar, Straus and Giroux US; a Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction
In the early 1990s Maharaj immigrated to Canada, and in 1993, he completed a second M.A. at the University of New Brunswick. In 1994 he moved to the town of Ajax, in Ontario’s Durham Region, where he taught high school for a number of years. In 1998, Maharaj, along with three other Durham Region writers, co-founded and co-edited the literary magazine LICHEN , which was launched in May 1999. Since then he has, among other posts, been a Writer in Residence at the Toronto Reference Library and at the Universit
In November 2012, Maharaj received a Lifetime Literary Award, administered by NALIS (National Library and Information System Authority) as part of the commemoration of Trinidad’s 50th independence anniversary. In January 2013, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, which honours significant contributions and achievements by Canadians. His books have also been published in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, and Turkey