The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Sabyasachi Nag, MFA. Sabyasachi’s graduate thesis is a literary novel entitled The Basis of Claim.
Sabyasachi’s fiction and poetry have appeared in over thirty journals and anthologies worldwide including Canadian Literature, Grain, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Windsor Review, and The Guardian among other places. He is the author of three collections of poetry including Uncharted (Mansfield Press, 2021). While at UBC he published Hands Like Trees, a story collection, (Ronsdale Press, 2023) and earned a Master’s scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). An alumnus of the Banff Centre Literary Arts Program, he is the founding editor of The Artisanal Writer.
When Danish Maz, an immigrant student from Calcutta gets embroiled in a random crime and is sent to prison he meets a shaman who takes him under surrogacy and leads him to a place he has never been before. What is this place – the utopia of his dreams that he must do everything in his power to inhabit for the rest of his life or the hell he must escape? The novel situated in Toronto’s Black Creek deals with three key thematic strands: how do we deal with our past? And what do we do with freedom? And how much hope is good? Other secondary themes interrogate constructs of power and adjustment in double-conscious, diasporic families.
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