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Anita Rau Badami
Canadian writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is a Canadian writer of Indian descent.[1]
Personal life and education
Badami was born 24 September 1961 in Rourkela, Odisha, India, to a South Indian Kannada-speaking family.[2]
She attended Sophia College, where she studied Social Communications Media, and received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Madras.[3]
Badami married in 1984; her son was born in 1987.[4]
In 1991, she immigrated to Canada, then attended the University of Calgary, where she received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing in 1995.[3] In 1997, her thesis project was published under the title Tamarind Mem.[3]
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Career
Badami began her career in India as a copywriter and freelance journalist.
After moving to Canada in 1991, she published her first novel, Tamarind Mem, in 1997.
In 2015 Badami was writer-in-residence at Athabasca University in Edmonton.[5]
In 2017, Badami was chair of the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury.[6][7]
Influences
Badami cites as among her favourite books Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Cat's Eye and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul, and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson.[8]
Awards and honours
In 2000, Badami won the Marian Engel Award to honour her body of work.[3][7]
In 2016, The Hero's Walk was listed as one of the five finalists for the CBC Canada Reads competition.[7][9]
In 2019, CBC Books included Badami on their "100 writers in Canada the world should read" list.[10]
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Bibliography
- Tamarind Mem. Viking Penguin. 1997. ISBN 9780670874552.[14][15][16]
- The Hero's Walk. Alfred A. Knopf Canada. 2001. ISBN 9780676972252.[17][18][19][20][21]
- Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?. Knopf Canada. 2006. ISBN 9780676976045.[22]
- Tell It to the Trees. Knopf Canada. 2011. ISBN 9780676978933.[23]
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