Anita Rau Badami

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Anita Rau Badami
Born (1961-09-24) September 24, 1961 (age 62)
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 honors

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

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  6. ↑ "Introducing the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize . Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
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