International Dublin Literary Award. and named a 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection. In 2015, Boyagoda published a biography of Richard John Neuhaus, a project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Neuhaus (1936-2009) was the prolific and influential Catholic priest and New York intellectual whose lifelong effort was to argue for the place of religion in American public life, something he did as a radical Leftist and Lutheran minister and as a Catholic priest. Boyagoda's biography, entitled Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square, has met with wide critical attention, with notable reviews running in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Globe and Mail. Boyagoda’s third novel, Original Prin, was published by Biblioasis in Canada in 2018 and in the United States in 2019. The novel, the first of a projected trilogy, tells the story of Prin, a forty-year-old professor at a Catholic college in downtown Toronto. After surviving cancer, Prin commits to becoming a better husband and father. His pursuit of this goal is interrupted by the imminent shutdown of his college and the arrival of Prin’s ex-girlfriend from graduate school, Wende, who is now working as a consultant to the college. Divinely inspired, Prin agrees to travel to the Middle East with Wende to launch an academic partnership that has deadly consequences. The Toronto Star called the novel “fresh and utterly original.” The sequel, Dante’s Indiana, was published in 2021. As a literary and cultural commentator, Boyagoda is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers including the Financial Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, the Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, First Things, the Walrus, the New York Times, the National Post, and The Globe and Mail, the New Statesman and The Guardian. His criticism includes reviews of Enid Blyton, Haruki Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Jose Saramago, among others. Bibliography Governor of the Northern Province: A Novel (2006) Race, Immigration and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner (2008) Beggar's Feast: A Novel (2011-2014) Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square (2015) Original Prin (2018) Dante's Indiana (2021) References External links Office of the Principal - University of St. Michael's College:Link University of Toronto English Department Profile:Link PEN Canada Profile:Link 1976 births Canadian male novelists Canadian people of Sri Lankan descent People from Oshawa