Farzana Doctor
Farzana Doctor | |
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 Farzana Doctor (l) with fellow Dayne Ogilvie Prize winners Amber Dawn and Debra Anderson. | |
| Born | Zambia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2000s-present |
| Notable works | Six Metres of Pavement |
| Notable awards | 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction |
| Website | |
| www | |
Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist and social worker. She has published two novels to date, and won the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Grant from the Writers' Trust of Canada for an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer.[1] Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, was also a nominee for the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards in the category of Lesbian Fiction,[2] and was announced as the winner of the award on June 4, 2012.[3]
Born in Zambia to Dawoodi Bohra Muslim expatriate parents from India, she immigrated to Canada with her family in the early 1970s.[4][5][6]
In addition to her writing career, Doctor works as a psychotherapist, coordinates a regular reading series in Toronto's Brockton Village neighbourhood,[7] and coproduced Rewriting The Script: A Loveletter to Our Families, a documentary film about the family relationships of LGBT people in Toronto's South Asian immigrant communities.[8]
Books
- Stealing Nasreen (2007)
- Six Metres of Pavement (Dundurn Press, 2011)
- All Inclusive (Dundurn Press, 2015)
References
- ^ "Farzana Doctor to receive Dayne Ogilvie Grant". Quill & Quire, June 1, 2011.
- ^ "Toronto writers up for Lambda Literary awards". Xtra!, May 11, 2012.
- ^ "Farzana Doctor wins Lambda Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2012.
- ^ Jayanthi Madhukar (January 21, 2013). "Evangelist She Is Not". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
- ^ Shaukat Ajmeri (September 26, 2015). "Farzana Doctor: Making the write choice". Retrieved February 10, 2016.
- ^ ROB MCLENNAN (November 15, 2015). "12 or 20 (second series) questions with Farzana Doctor". Retrieved February 10, 2016.
- ^ "Farzana Doctor sees hyper-local reading series grow". Xtra!, February 1, 2011.
- ^ "Farzana Doctor touring new novel". Xtra!, November 8, 2007.
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