Anita Rau Badami
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| Anita Rau Badami | |
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| Born | September 24, 1961 Rourkela, Odisha, India |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is a Canadian writer of Indian descent.[1] Born in Rourkela, Odisha, India, to a South Indian Kannada-speaking family,[2] she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia Polytechnic in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary. Her first novel was Tamarind Mem (1997).
Her novels deal with the complexities of Indian family life and with the cultural gap that emerges when Indians move to the west.Badami's third novel, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call explores the Golden Temple Massacre and the Air India Bombing.
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.[3] In 2015 Badami was writer-in-residence at Athabasca University in Edmonton. In 2016 The Hero's Walk was listed as one of the five finalists for the CBC Canada Reads competition.
In 2017, Badami was announced as chair of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury.[4]
Bibliography
- Tamarind Mem - 1997 ISBN 0-670-86916-3 (U.S. title: Tamarind Woman - 2002)
- The Hero's Walk - 2001 ISBN 0-676-97225-X
- Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? - 2006 ISBN 978-0676976052
- Tell it to the Trees- 2011 ISBN 978-0676978940
References
- ^ "Anita Rau Badami". Canadian Writers. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ "Anita Rau Badami - Interview". januarymagazine.com. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ Canadian Living : Life : Community : Interview with author Anita Rau Badami
- ^ "Introducing the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize, January 16, 2017.
External links
- A conversation with Anita Rau Badami
- Review of The Hero's Walk
- Review of Tamarind Mem
- Anita Rau Badami fan page
- Records of Anita Rau Badami are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
- Recordings of Anita Rau Badami are available online in the Unarchiving the Margins Collection at Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
- 1961 births
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Indian women novelists
- Living people
- Indian emigrants to Canada
- People from Rourkela
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- Canadian people of Indian descent
- English-language writers from India
- Sophia College for Women alumni
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- 20th-century Indian writers
- 21st-century Indian women writers
- 21st-century Indian writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Sophia Polytechnic alumni
- Women writers from Odisha
- Novelists from Odisha
- Writers from Vancouver
- 20th-century Canadian women writers