April 2009
Fulbright Scholarship for study at Boston's University's acclaimed creative writing program.
The Canada-US Fulbright commission has awarded a Fulbright scholarship to support Anand's nine-month stay at Boston University. |  |
October, 2008
Works in Progress Grant for novel length manuscript tentatively titled A Half of Two Worlds
This $12,000 grant from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is a juried award to writers who are six to eight months from completing a book length manuscript.
This novel explores the identity politics of a Pakistani Muslim boy born into a family of Sufi mystics who moves to America to become a doctor and promptly falls in love with an American girl while himself becoming the love interest of a Jewish Brooklyner. Set around the millennium, the novel explores the influences that shape the adult selves in the modern east and west. |  |
September 11, 2007
Level Two grant for novel length manuscript A Half of Two Worlds
This $7, 500 juried grant from the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) is awarded to city of Toronto writers and provides assistance to writers for the creation of new works or for works-in-progress. The jury members are not told the names of the applicants prior to making their grant recommendations. |  |
September 13, 2005
Level One grant for novel length manuscript The Strike
This $2,000 juried grant from the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) is awarded to city of Toronto writers and provides assistance to writers for the creation of new works or for works-in-progress. The jury members are not told the names of the applicants prior to making their grant recommendations. | |
July 29, 2005
Works in Progress Grant for novel length manuscript tentatively titled The Strike.
This $12,000 grant from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is a juried award to writers who are six to eight months from completing a book length manuscript.
This novel explores the coming of age of a brahmin boy in 1980s India and how Hari, the protagonist of the novel, comes to term with the multifaceted identities of language, class, sex, religion and sexuality as he transitions from childhood to adult relationships. The novel explores the idea of love and kinship in a Tamil family and the dynamics of film and power in southern India. | |
February 2004
Writer's Trust of Canada Scholarship at the Humber School for Writers.
This $1000 grant from the Writer's Trust of Canada (WTC) allowed Anand to work with M.G. Vassanji on an early draft of his novel length manuscript tentatively titled The Strike.
The Humber School for Writers (HSW) correspondance program matches budding writers with established and prominent writers both in Canada and abroad for a 16 week one-on-one mentoring and critiquing course. |  |
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