Tamai Kobayashi

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Tamai Kobayashi
Born1966
Japan
Occupationnovelist, short story writer
Nationality Canadian
Period1990s-present
Notable worksPrairie Ostrich
Website
www.tamaikobayashi.com

Tamai Kobayashi (born 1966 in Japan) is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014. [1]

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Kobayashi was co-editor with Mona Oikawa of All Names Spoken, an anthology of lesbian writing published by Sister Vision Press in 1992. [2] She later published two short story collections, Exile and the Heart (1998) and Quixotic Erotic (2003), [3] before publishing her debut novel, Prairie Ostrich, in 2014. [4] In addition, she wrote the short film Short Hymn, Silent War , directed by Charles Officer, [5] and her short story "Panopte's Eye" appeared in the 2004 science fiction anthology So Long Been Dreaming .

Her first short film, Later, In the Life, is about two older lesbians, whose friendship is affected when one of them starts dating. [6]

She was also a founding member of Asian Lesbians of Toronto. [3]

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References

  1. "Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire , June 24, 2014.
  2. W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN   0802007619. Chapter "Gay and Lesbian Writing", pp. 418-422.
  3. 1 2 Tamai Kobayashi. Asian Heritage in Canada (Ryerson University Library and Archives), 2014.
  4. Susan G. Cole, "10 more must-reads". NOW , March 27, 2014.
  5. "HD production heats up". Playback , February 18, 2002.
  6. Later, in the Life at IMDb