the Kanishka bombing. Blaise wrote two more novels and a number of short stories. Personal life He married writer Bharati Mukherjee in 1963. They met as students at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and have two sons. Mukherjee died in 2017. Blaise lives in New York. Honours and awards In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian letters as an author, essayist, teacher, and founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University". Bibliography Short stories A North American Education – 1973 Tribal Justice – 1974 Resident Alien – 1986 Man and His World – 1992 Southern Stories – 2000 Pittsburgh Stories – 2001 Montreal Stories – 2003 The Meagre Tarmac – 2011 (longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize) Novels Lunar Attractions – 1979 (winner of the 1980 Books in Canada First Novel Award) Lusts – 1984 If I Were Me – 1997 Memoirs Days and Nights in Calcutta – 1977 (with Bharati Mukherjee) I had a Father – 1992 Non-fiction The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy – 1987 (with Bharati Mukherjee) Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time – 2000 Criticism A Novel of India's Coming of Age - The New York Times, April 19, 1981 (A review of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children) References External links Clark Blaise's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia 1940 births Living people Canadian male novelists Officers of the Order of Canada American emigrants to Canada Writers from San Francisco Writers from Fargo, North Dakota Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni International Writing Program alumni 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian male writers Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners