Randy Boyagoda is the author of
“Governor of
the Northern Province”. His short
story “Rice and Curry Yacht Club” was one of the winners of the 2005 Journey
Prize. Randy was born in Oshawa, Ontario, near Toronto. He is a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He has had articles on contemporary
culture published in both Canadian and US periodicals, including “The Walrus”,
“The National Review”, “The Mississippi Quarterly”, “The University of Toronto
Quarterly”, and “The New Pantagruel”. His fiction has also appeared in “Queen
Street Quarterly”, “Pagitica”, “Descant,” “Lichen”, and “Another Toronto
Quarterly”. He was awarded a PhD in English from Boston University in 2004 (his
dissertation was on immigration, race, and American identity in the fiction of
Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. T. S. Eliot is another
writer that has had a big influence on him. Randy Boyagoda has also been a
doctoral research fellow at the Social Science and Humanities Research Council
of Canada. He is currently at work at a short story collection called “Make
Believe City”.
For Whose Greater Glory?
– a Randy Boyagoda piece published in “The Mystic Review”
Does
Rushdie matter? Celebrity is the enemy of the artist – a Randy Boyagoda
article in “The Weekly Standard”
Randy Boyagoda interview – with CBC.ca
The
Danforth Review – their interview with Randy Boyagoda
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