Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Mark Yep
Ahmad Saidullah
BIO
Biography

AHMAD SAIDULLAH's Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories was published to critical acclaim in Canada and India in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and longlisted for the Crossword Vodafone Book Award for global South Asian fiction in 2010. In 2013, University of Ottawa Press published a French edition of the book, Le Bonheur et autres troubles, translated by  Annick Geoffrey-Skuce, Marc Charron and Caroline Lavoie. Ahmad Saidullah's writings have been anthologized and published in 3QuarksDaily, Academic Matters, Altar Magazine, Blackbird, Drunken Boat, EnRoute, Gently Read Literature, L Magazine, Feminist Review Blog, Pratilipi, The Quarterly Conversation, and on CBC Radio One. He has appeared onstage with Elizabeth Abbott, Sharon English, Elizabeth Hay, Lawrence Hill, and Jane Urquhart. He has read at Harbourfront, GritLIT, Ottawa Writers Festival, Masala Mehndi Masti and Luminato. Ahmad has a Master's from the University of Cambridge. He lives in Toronto.   

ADDRESS
City: Toronto, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction, Essays, Criticism, Literary Theory
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Michael Holroyd Prize for Creative Nonfiction (University of Cambridge)
Publication
Sol Niger (3rd Prize)
Year
2019
Name
Crossword Vodafone Award for Global South Asian Fiction
Publication
Happiness and Other Disorders Short Stories (longlist)
Year
2009
Name
CBC Literary Award for Happiness and Other Disorders
Publication
Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories (winner) and Sol Niger (longlist)
Year
2005 and 2017
Name
Fish International Short Story Prize
Publication
The Sadness of Snakes (longlist)
Year
2007
Name
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Publication
Happiness and Other Disorders Short Stories (finalist)
Year
2009
Name
PanLiterary Award (Drunken Boat)
Publication
The Sadness of Snakes (finalist)
Year
2007
LINKS
Links
Artisanal Writer
[In Parentheses]
Happiness & Other Disorders: Short Stories
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