Anita Rau Badami
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Born | Rourkela, Odisha, India | September 24, 1961
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
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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
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]
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
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 honors
In 2000, Badami won the
In 2016, The Hero's Walk was listed as one of the five finalists for the CBC Canada Reads competition.[7][9]
In 2019,
Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | The Hero's Walk | Kiriyama Prize for Fiction | ||
2001 | Commonwealth Book Prize : Canada and the Caribbean
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Winner | [3][11] | |
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize | Shortlist | |||
2002 | Orange Prize for Fiction
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Longlist | ||
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? | International Dublin Literary Award | Longlist | [7][9] | |
Orange Prize for Fiction
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Longlist | [7][9] | ||
2012 | Tell It to the Trees | International Dublin Literary Award | Longlist | [12] |
2013 | OLA Evergreen Award | Shortlist | [13] |
Bibliography
- Tamarind Mem.
- The Hero's Walk.
- Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?. ISBN 9780676976045.[22]
- Tell It to the Trees. ISBN 9780676978933.[23]
References
- ^ "Anita Rau Badami". Canadian Writers. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Richards, Linda (August 2000). "Anita Rau Badami - Interview". January Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "Anita Rau Badami". The Canadian Encyclopedia. 28 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Mickley, Lisa (May 2017). "Badami, Anita Rau – Postcolonial Studies". Emory University. Archived from the original on 17 June 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- The Voice. Archivedfrom the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- Scotiabank Giller Prize. Archivedfrom the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Quill and Quire. Archivedfrom the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Tancock, Kat (30 September 2006). "Interview with author Anita Rau Badami". Canadian Living. Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ CBC Books. 6 March 2019. Archivedfrom the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- CBC Books. 23 April 2019. Archivedfrom the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2007.
- Quill and Quire. Archivedfrom the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- Quill and Quire. Archivedfrom the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Sethi, Robbie Clipper. "Tamarind Mem". IndiaStar. Archived from the original on 3 February 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Tamarind Woman". Kirkus Reviews. 15 December 2001. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "TAMARIND WOMAN by Anita Rau Badami". Publishers Weekly. 14 January 2002. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- Salon. Archived from the originalon 24 September 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "The Hero's Walk". Kirkus Reviews. 15 February 2001. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami". Publishers Weekly. 1 April 2001. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Bhatta, Bishnu Prasad (2009). Quest for Female Identity in Anita Rau Badami'sThe Hero's Walk (Thesis thesis). Central Departmental of English. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Karthika, C. (June 2018). "Dislocated Self: A Study of Immigrant Psyche in Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk". Language in India. 18 (6): 81–85.
- Quill and Quire. 12 August 2013. Archivedfrom the original on 4 June 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- Quill and Quire. 12 August 2013. Archivedfrom the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
External links
- Arora, Anupama (November 2010). ""My Books are About Small Details, the Daily Business of Living": An Interview with Anita Rau Badami". South Asian Review. 31 (1): 307–323. ISSN 0275-9527.
- Kozminuk, Angela (7 October 1996). "Arts: A conversation with Anita Rau Badami". Archived from the original on 10 November 2004. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- Ryan, Laurel (June 2008). "Constructing "Home": Eros, Thanatos, and Migration in the Novels of Anita Rau Badami". South Asian Review. 29 (1): 156–174. ISSN 0275-9527.
- Härting, Heike (2003). "Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk". Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne. 28 (1): 43–70. ISSN 0380-6995.</ref>