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Ma­haraj's books have been fi­nal­ists for the Com­mon­wealth Writ­ers' Prize the Chap­ters/Books in Cana­da First Nov­el Award and the Rogers Fic­tion Award.

Cur­rent­ly a lec­tur­er in cre­ative writ­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to's School of Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies, he has al­so served as a writer-in-res­i­dence at the Toron­to Ref­er­ence Li­brary. The writer-in-res­i­dence pro­gramme cul­mi­nates an­nu­al­ly in Cam­pus Lit­er­a­ture Week, an en­tire week de­vot­ed to the writ­ten and spo­ken word, which runs from March 18-22 this year.īorn and raised in Trinidad, Ma­haraj left for Cana­da in the ear­ly 1990s. It al­so ex­tends to stu­dents and in­di­vid­u­als not cur­rent­ly in the MFA pro­gramme who al­so have a se­ri­ous in­ter­est in be­com­ing full-time writ­ers.

The idea of re­turn­ing to T&T for a time to work and share knowl­edge as an es­tab­lished writer came to Ra­bindranath Ma­haraj when he took part in last year's Bo­cas Lit Fest in Port-of-Spain.This year's writer-in-res­i­dence at UWI, St Au­gus­tine, Ma­haraj ex­plains that this job en­tails dis­cus­sions with mas­ters of fine arts (MFA) stu­dents and a week­ly work­shop on their sto­ries. Shiv­a­nee Ram­lochanan in­ter­view with UWI writer-in-res­i­denceR­abindranath Ma­haraj