Naben Ruthnum is a Canadian writer, who has published work under both his own name and the pen name Nathan Ripley. He won the

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in 2013 for his short story "Cinema Rex", and has since published the books ''Curry: Reading, Eating and Race'' (2017), a non-fiction essay collection about immigrant cultural identity in food and literature, and two literary thriller novels, ''Find You in the Dark'' and ''Your Life is Mine''. Ruthnum's current novel, ''A Hero of Our Time,'' was published in January, 2022 and a novella, ''Helpmeet'', was published in May, 2022. Originally from

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, Ruthnum is of

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descent."Naben Ruthnum"
''Asian Heritage in Canada''. He has a master's degree from

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, where he wrote his thesis on the role of

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in the development of the

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in British literature. Ruthnum is also a former musician who was a guitarist for

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-based

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band.

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