Victor J. Ramraj

Prof. Victor Ramraj is Professor of English Literature, University of Calgary  where he has been on faculty since 1970. From 1990 to 2001 he was editor of the journal Ariel: A Review of International English Literature.

He is a past President of CALJ (Canadian Association of Learned Journals) and of CACLALS (Canadian
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies). He has given numerous lectures and plenary addresses at various institutions nationally and internationally, including a State Lecture on Postcolonialism and Postmodernism, in Georgetown, sponsored by the Prime Minister of Guyana. He was a judge of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 1999-2000 and of the Guyana Prize for Literature (2005 and 2011). His publications include a book on the Canadian writer Mordecai Richler and an anthology Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English.  He is currently working on a study of the politics of differences and affinities in International English literature.  He taught at St. Stanislaus College (1959-61) and at Queen's College (1964-66). His play “The Dead Son” earned him the Playwright-of-the-Year Award, Georgetown, Guyana, 1966.

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Fish Pond | Victor J Ramraj
Fish Pond | Concert of Voices
Guyana Chronicle | Preserving Our Literary Heritage
Broadview Press | Concert of Voices: Second Edition

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