Anita Rau Badami

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Anita Rau Badami
Born (1961-09-24) September 24, 1961 (age 63)
Rourkela, Odisha, India
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Website
www.anitaraubadami.ca
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Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is a Canadian writer of Indian descent. [1]

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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]

Awards for Badami's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef.
2000The Hero's Walk Kiriyama Prize for Fiction
2001 Commonwealth Book Prize: Canada and the CaribbeanWinner [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]
2012Tell It to the Trees International Dublin Literary Award Longlist [12]
2013OLA Evergreen AwardShortlist [13]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Anita Rau Badami". Canadian Writers. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Richards, Linda (August 2000). "Anita Rau Badami - Interview". January Magazine . Archived from the original on 30 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Anita Rau Badami". The Canadian Encyclopedia . 28 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  4. ↑ Mickley, Lisa (May 2017). "Badami, Anita Rau – Postcolonial Studies". Emory University . Archived from the original on 17 June 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  5. ↑ Jacobsen, Scott (25 March 2016). "Anita Rau Badami: An Interview". The Voice . Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Introducing the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize . Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Robertson, Becky (16 January 2017). "Anita Rau Badami to chair 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury". Quill and Quire . Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  8. ↑ Tancock, Kat (30 September 2006). "Interview with author Anita Rau Badami". Canadian Living. Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  9. 1 2 3 "Anita Rau Badami". CBC Books . 6 March 2019. Archived from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "100 writers in Canada the world should read". CBC Books . 23 April 2019. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  11. ↑ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2007.
  12. ↑ Carter, Sue (12 November 2012). "deWitt and Edugyan among 20 Canadian authors longlisted for IMPAC". Quill and Quire . Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  13. ↑ Sequeira, Natalie (4 February 2013). "OLA announces shortlist for 2013 Evergreen Award". Quill and Quire . Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  14. ↑ Sethi, Robbie Clipper. "Tamarind Mem". IndiaStar. Archived from the original on 3 February 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  15. ↑ "Tamarind Woman". Kirkus Reviews . 15 December 2001. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  16. ↑ "TAMARIND WOMAN by Anita Rau Badami". Publishers Weekly . 14 January 2002. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  17. ↑ Hansen, Suzy (19 April 2001). ""The Hero's Walk" by Anita Rau Badami". Salon . Archived from the original on 24 September 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  18. ↑ "The Hero's Walk". Kirkus Reviews . 15 February 2001. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  19. ↑ "The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami". Publishers Weekly . 1 April 2001. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  20. ↑ Bhatta, Bishnu Prasad (2009). Quest for Female Identity in Anita Rau Badami'sThe Hero's Walk (Thesis thesis). Central Departmental of English. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  21. ↑ Karthika, C. (June 2018). "Dislocated Self: A Study of Immigrant Psyche in Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk". Language in India. 18 (6): 81–85.
  22. ↑ "Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?". Quill and Quire . 12 August 2013. Archived from the original on 4 June 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  23. ↑ "Tell It to the Trees". Quill and Quire . 12 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
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