Editing Neil Bissoondath (section)

==Awards==
He won the [[Writers' Trust of Canada]]'s [[Gordon Montador Award]] in 1995 for ''Selling Illusions''.<ref>"Debated book wins Montador". ''[[Halifax Daily News]]'', 5 May 1995.</ref>

Bissoondath has received honorary doctorates from [[Glendon College]], [[York University]]<ref>Nishat Karim, [http://www.yorku.ca/yul/gazette/past/archive/060999/convo.html "York presents new honorary doctorates at spring convocation 1999"], ''York University Gazette'', Vol. 29, No. 33, 9 June 1999.</ref> and [[Université de Moncton]].<ref>[http://canadaimmigration.typepad.com/canada_immigration/2008/05/immigrants-shou.html "Immigrants should help preserve culture, says author"], Canada Immigration, 29 May 2008.</ref> In 2010 he was made a Chevalier of the [[Ordre national du Québec]].<ref>[http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=2571 "Neil Bissoondath - Chevalier (2010)"], Ordre national du Québec.</ref> In 2012, he was awarded the [[NALIS]] (National Library of Trinidad and Tobago) Lifetime Literary Achievement Award.<ref name=NALIS>[http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Research/SubjectGuide/Biographies/BiographiesAC/tabid/100/Default.aspx?PageContentID=1132 Neil Bissoondath biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013231527/http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Research/SubjectGuide/Biographies/BiographiesAC/tabid/100/Default.aspx?PageContentID=1132 |date=13 October 2014 }} at NALIS.</ref>