Rana Bose was a novelist, playwright, poet, dramaturge, professional engineer, and founding editor of Montréal Serai — a nonprofit arts and culture online magazine, which began as a local theatre and arts collective. (It now offers an annual Rana Bose Memorial Grant for writers and artists.)
Rana authored four novels, including Shaf and the Remington (2022), and Fog (2019), which won the Miramichi Reader’s 2019 Best Canadian Fiction Award. His plays have been published and performed in Canada and the United States. His last play, Tribes! (No Matter What), was performed by Esperance Theatre shortly after his death, in co-production with Teesri Duniya Theatre. Rana was born and raised in Kolkata, studied in the U.S., and lived for over 40 years in Montreal. In 2016, he won the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Judy Mappin Community Award.
Selected writing credits are below.
Novels:
- Shaf and the Remington (Baraka Books), 2022
- Fog (Baraka Books), 2019
- The Fourth Canvas (TSAR), 2008
- Recovering Rude (Véhicule Press), 2001
Plays:
- Tribes! (No Matter What), 2013
- 1999 Death of Abbie Hoffman and other plays (Seagull Press, India), 1999
- Five or Six Characters in Search of Toronto and other plays (Prestige Publishers, India) 1998
- Baba Jacques Dass and Turmoil at Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery, 1996
Poems:
- Five poems, Asia Pacific Asian Studies Journal, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
- “Roundness Motherness”, Montréal Serai, 1991
- “West meets Rest,” Montréal Serai, 1988
Short Stories:
- “Palti,” West End Review, Vancouver, 2000
- “Virus Dream,” Montréal Serai, 1994
- “Blackskirt,” Montréal Serai, 1992
- “Glibfist,” Montréal Serai, 1990
Photo: Saktipriya Bhattacharyya
