Latika Bourke
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Born | Twitter | 9 March 1984
Latika Bourke (born 9 March 1984) is an Australian author and journalist. She writes for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and in the past has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and 2UE. Her book From India with Love was published in 2015.
Life and career
Latika Bourke was born in Bihar, India on 9 March 1984. The daughter of a 14-year-old mother, Bourke was left at a Catholic orphanage in Bettiah in the care of nuns when she was less than a week old.[1]
Bourke came to Australia in December 1984, adopted by Penny and John Bourke at the age of eight months. In her early childhood, Bourke lived with her family on a farm outside of Bathurst, New South Wales. Bourke and her family moved into the Bathurst township when she was seven years old.[2]
From 2002 to 2005, Bourke studied journalism at
In 2007, while on the job as a reporter for 2UE, Bourke was verbally abused and told to "cover up" whilst waiting to interview a Muslim cleric who had previously given a sermon comparing uncovered women to exposed meat. She was outside Lakemba Mosque, wearing a long trench coat, knee-high boots and gloves.[4]
In December 2010, the
Bourke's book, From India with Love, about her journey of self-discovery, was published in 2015. She has said that she gives half of the royalties she earns from sales of her book to orphanages in India.[2]
In December 2015, Bourke announced she would be leaving the Canberra Press Gallery and moving to London at the end of January 2016.[7]
Awards and honours
In June 2010, Bourke won the
References
- ^ O'Neill, Helen (19 April 2015). "Latika Bourke's Indian story". Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016.
- ^ a b Field, Melissa (19 November 2008). "We Are Family". Archived from the original on 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Journalism a calling, says award winner". Charles Sturt University. 2011. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016.
- ^ "2UE reporter hassled for wearing wrong clothes at Mosque". Radioinfo. 21 May 2007. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Latika Bourke is ABC's first social media reporter". mUmBRELLA. 13 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 November 2012.
- ^ "Tips and rumours". Crikey. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original on 16 May 2015.
- ^ Healey, Briana (4 December 2015). "Latika Bourke announces departure from Canberra Press Gallery". Archived from the original on 1 April 2016.
- ^ Overington, Caroline (5 July 2010). "Ten Questions: Latika M. Bourke". The Australian. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 1 April 2016.