Churaumanie Bissundyal
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Woodside, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Churaumanie Bissundyal is a Caribbean American writer (playwright, novelist and poet) living in New York. He has completed six novels, five books of poems, four screenplays, one soap opera, and ten plays. In 1988, his play From Ganges to Demerary was staged at Samuell Beckett’s Theatre, York University, Toronto, Canada. He had produced six of his plays in Guyana, and he won the prestigious American award, The Vera Rubin Residency Award, at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. In the same year, he received a fellowship in creative writing at the University of Miami, Florida. In 2005 he was awarded the Kavya Mani award for his Sanskrit poem “Vanamatri.” He holds an MFA degree (a master’s degree in fine arts) from Goddard College and a Ph. D. degree in Philosophy from Union Institute and University, with a specialization in Creative Writing, Modern Western Fiction, Sanskrit Aesthetics and Theory, Sanskrit Grammar and Poetry, Literary Theory and Critical Methods, Philosophy, and Dramaturgy and Theatre Production. |
| Interests | Movies, cricket, reading |
| Favorite movies | Both Hollywood and Bollywood |
| Favorite music | Indian |