Farzana Doctor

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Farzana Doctor
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Farzana Doctor
Born Zambia
OccupationWriter
NationalityCanadian
Period2000s-present
Notable worksSix Metres of Pavement
Notable awards2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize
2012 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Website
www.farzanadoctor.com

Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist and social worker.

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Biography

Born in Zambia to Dawoodi Bohra Muslim expatriate parents from India, she immigrated to Canada with her family in the early 1970s. [1] [2] [3]

She has published three 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. [4] Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, was also a nominee for the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards in the category of Lesbian Fiction, [5] and was announced as the winner of the award on June 4, 2012. [6] In 2017, it won the One Book, One Brampton award. In 2015, her third novel, All Inclusive, was released in Canada, and it was later released in the US in 2017. It was a Kobo 2015 and National Post Best Book of the Year.

In addition to her writing career, Doctor works as a registered social worker, in a private psychotherapy practice, 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]

CBC Books listed Doctor's 2020 novel Seven on its list of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020. [9]

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  8. "Farzana Doctor touring new novel". Xtra! , November 8, 2007.
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