My Undiscovered Country

Critics have called Dabydeen a "short story master," and in this latest collection, his stories of  life in Guyana are interspersed with the urban landscape of Canada where Dabydeen has lived for decades. His stories are distinctive with a strong narrative voice that encompasses fantasy and reality as ethnic and cultural roots commingle. The author’s inflection is mixed with motifs when the tropics and the temperate merge. For Dabydeen, literature is undiscovered country.

Cyril Dabydeen was born in Guyana in 1945, and worked as a teacher before moving to Canada in 1970. Dabydeen teaches Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa, and is a former Poet Laureate of Ottawa.