Anand Mahadevan is an Indian- Canadian writer, who was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the

Dayne Ogilvie Prize The Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging Canadian writer who is part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer community. Origin ...

for LGBT writers in 2013."C.E. Gatchalian wins Dayne Ogilive Prize"
'' Quill & Quire'', 27 June 2014. Born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India,"Anand Mahadevan's The Strike inspired by 1987 train siege"
'' IBN Live'', 8 June 2009. Mahadevan moved to the United States at age 17 to study. He moved to Canada in 2002,Asian Heritage in Canada: Anand Mahadevan
. Ryerson University Library and Archives. and teaches science at the University of Toronto Schools and creative writing at the Humber School for Writers. ''The Strike'', his debut novel about a young Tamil man's gay sexual awakening, was published in Canada by TSAR Publications in 2006."Striking out on his own"
''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

'', 2 July 2009. Its publication in India followed in 2009. His second novel, tentatively titled ''American Sufi'', is slated for future publication. He has also been an active supporter of the campaign to strike down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalized homosexuality in India. He subsequently served on the jury for the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, selecting

Alex Leslie Alex Leslie is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers from the Writers Trust of Canada in 2015."Alex Leslie wins 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers"
'' Quill & Quire'', 8 June 2015.

Works

*''The Strike'' (2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mahadevan, Anand 1979 births Canadian male novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists Indian male novelists Living people Indian emigrants to Canada Indian LGBT novelists Canadian LGBT novelists Canadian writers of Asian descent Novelists from Tamil Nadu Writers from Toronto 21st-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian LGBT people