Anita Rau Badami
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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 Rourkela, Odisha, India, to a South Indian Kannada-speaking family.[2]
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 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury.[6][7]
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 honours
In 2000, Badami won the Marian Engel Award to honour her body of work.[3][7]
In 2016, The Hero's Walk was listed as one of the five finalists for the CBC Canada Reads competition.[7][9]
In 2019, CBC Books included Badami on their "100 writers in Canada the world should read" list.[10]
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 2000 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Kiriyama Prize for Fiction | ||
| 2001 | Commonwealth Book Prize: Canada and the Caribbean | Winner | [3][11] | |
| Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize | Shortlist | |||
| 2002 | Orange Prize for Fiction | Longlist | ||
| Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? | International Dublin Literary Award | Longlist | [7][9] | |
| Orange Prize for Fiction | Longlist | [7][9] | ||
| 2012 | Tell It to the Trees | International Dublin Literary Award | Longlist | [12] |
| 2013 | OLA Evergreen Award | Shortlist | [13] |
Bibliography
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- 1961 births
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
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- Living people
- Indian emigrants to Canada
- People from Rourkela
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- English-language Indian writers
- Sophia College for Women alumni
- 20th-century Indian women writers
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