Tony D'Souza
Fiction

Tony D'Souza's critically acclaimed debut novel Whiteman won both the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2007 GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction. Whiteman episodically tells the story of a young American relief worker living in a Muslim Ivory Coast village. Salon reviewer Laura Miller observes that "each little tale nestled in [the] novel has an intoxicating, fireside charm. Some of the tales are sad, or spooky or bawdy, but all of them seamlessly combine the ancient allure of folklore with a modern, Western literary elegance." D'Souza spent three years in the Peace Corps in West Africa working as a rural AIDS educator.