{"id":540,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/ahmad-saidullah\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:23:16","slug":"saidullah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/saidullah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmad Saidullah"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahmad Saidullah was born in Ottawa, Ontario, grew up in India, and now lives in Toronto, Canada. The title story from his debut collection Happiness and Other Disorders<\/span><\/em> won second prize in the 2005 CBC Literary Awards.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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\"Happiness<\/a><\/div>\n
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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

Happiness and Other Disorders<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

Set in India, Burma, England, the Czech Republic, Greenland, the US, and Canada, from World War II to the present, Happiness and Other Disorders<\/span><\/em> offers astonishingly subtle and vivid portraits of characters and societies torn apart by violence and oppression.<\/p>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

2009 Danuta Gleed Literary Award<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n
Chilana, Rajwant Singh. “Ahmad Saidullah.” In South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bio-Bibliographical Study<\/em>. Surrey, BC: Asian Publications, 2017, 160.
\nZ1376 .S68 C45 2017<\/a><\/div>\n
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Links<\/h3>\n

Blog<\/a> for Happiness and Other Disorders<\/em><\/p>\n

Member profile<\/a> from the Writers’ Union of Canada website<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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