Winner of 2021 Marty for Literature, Pratap Reddy immigrated to Canada from India in 2002, bringing, like contraband, a dream of becoming a writer. It happened years later, with tips and help from fellow writers and organizations like Diaspora Dialogues and Mississauga Arts Council. An underwriter by day and a writer by night, he writes about the agony and angst (on occasion the ecstasies) of newly arrived immigrants. He is an alumnus of the Humber School of Writers, and has two published book “Weather Permitting & Other Stories” (Guernica, 2016) and a novel “Ramya’s Treasure” (Guernica, 2028). He has a collection “Remaindered People & Other Stories” awaiting publication. One of the stories “The Lime Tree” in the upcoming collection was first published, he is proud to add, in the anthology “Changing the Face of Canadian Literature.” He lives in Mississauga with his wife and son, and is ‘working’ (yes, wiping the sweat off his brow) on a second novel tentatively titled “Praful’s Errands”.

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Pratap Reddy

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