Owen Sela moved to Canada from the UK to be with Smita Sengupta, his beloved partner of 44 years. With his marriage to Smita, Owen joined the Sengupta family which included Sreela, sister-in-law and their parents Anima and Hiranya, and the extended Sengupta families.

Born in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, Owen went to the UK in the fifties where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1963 and went into practice. Predeceased by his parents, Stanley and Blanche, his brothers are Patrick, who resides in Australia and Winston who lives in the UK. Uncle to Judith (Damien), Tonya (Robert), Owen (Annette) and Jonathan, Owen is godfather to Richard Chesterton, son of his close friend, Jenny.

Aside from being a very successful Chartered Accountant, Owen was an accomplished author of several spy thrillers. On a plane to Australia to relieve the tedium, he thought up the plot for his first book, The Bearer Plot, which was published in 1972. Over the following twenty years he went on to write twelve thrillers. His background in the highly complex world of international finance made his books most authentic and compelling and were translated into several languages.

He had a fascination with cars and raced them. He played tennis, was a runner and a voracious reader. His love of travel took him all over the world.

Witty, kind and generous, Owen will be missed by his family and friends all over the world.