Tamai Kobayashi
Tamai Kobayashi | |
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| Born | 1965 Japan |
| Occupation | novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Notable works | Prairie Ostrich |
| Website | |
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Tamai Kobayashi (born 1965 in Japan) is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.[1]
Kobayashi was co-editor with Mona Oikawa of All Names Spoken, an anthology of lesbian writing published by Sister Vision Press in 1992.[2] She later published two short story collections, Exile and the Heart (1998) and Quixotic Erotic (2003),[3] before publishing her debut novel, Prairie Ostrich, in 2014.[4] In addition, she wrote the short film Short Hymn, Silent War, directed by Charles Officer,[5] and her short story "Panopte's Eye" appeared in the 2004 science fiction anthology So Long Been Dreaming.
Her first short film, Later, In the Life, is about two older lesbians, whose friendship is affected when one of them starts dating.[6]
She was also a founding member of Asian Lesbians of Toronto.[3]
Works
- All Names Spoken (1992, ISBN 9780920813881)
- Exile and the Heart (1998, ISBN 9780889612297)
- Quixotic Erotic (2003, ISBN 9781551521398)
- Prairie Ostrich (2014, ISBN 9780864926807)
References
- ^ "Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire, June 24, 2014.
- ^ W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0802007619. Chapter "Gay and Lesbian Writing", pp. 418-422.
- ^ a b Tamai Kobayashi. Asian Heritage in Canada (Ryerson University Library and Archives), 2014.
- ^ Susan G. Cole, "10 more must-reads". NOW, March 27, 2014.
- ^ "HD production heats up". Playback, February 18, 2002.
- ^ Later, in the Life at IMDb
External links
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- 1965 births
- Canadian screenwriters
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian women novelists
- Living people
- Japanese emigrants to Canada
- Canadian women short story writers
- LGBT writers from Canada
- LGBT rights activists from Canada
- Lesbian writers
- LGBT novelists
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian Film Centre alumni