Rabindranath Maharaj Named Winner of the 2011 Toronto Book Award
Submitted by clelia on October 14, 2011 - 2:53pm
Congratulations to Rabindranath Maharaj, the winner of the 2011 Toronto Book Award for his novel, The Amazing Absorbing Boy! He was awarded the prize at a reception at the Toronto Reference Library on October 13th. Jane Pyper, the Toronto Public Library's City Librarian, praised Maharaj's novel for its "clear-eyed look at Toronto as it appears to a young Trinidadian immigrant…."
The Amazing Absorbing Boy is Maharah's ninth book.
For more information about the Toronto Book Awards, please visit www.toronto.ca/book_awards.
