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Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is a Canadian writer of Indian descent.
Personal life and education
Badami was born 24 September 1961 in Rourkela, Odisha, India, to a South Indian Kannada-speaking family.
She attended Sophia College, where she studied Social Communications Media, and received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Madras.
Badami married in 1984; her son was born in 1987.
In 1991, she immigrated to Canada, then attended the University of Calgary, where she received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing in 1995. In 1997, her thesis project was published under the title Tamarind Mem.
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.
In 2017, Badami was chair of the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury.
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.
Awards and honours
In 2000, Badami won the Marian Engel Award to honour her body of work.
In 2016, The Hero's Walk was listed as one of the five finalists for the CBC Canada Reads competition.
In 2019, CBC Books included Badami on their "100 writers in Canada the world should read" list.
Bibliography
Tamarind Mem. Viking Penguin. 1997. ISBN 9780670874552.
The Hero's Walk. Alfred A. Knopf Canada. 2001. ISBN 9780676972252.
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?. Knopf Canada. 2006. ISBN 9780676976045.
Tell It to the Trees. Knopf Canada. 2011. ISBN 9780676978933.
References
External links
Arora, Anupama (November 2010). ""My Books are About Small Details, the Daily Business of Living": An Interview with Anita Rau Badami". South Asian Review. 31 (1): 307–323. doi:10.1080/02759527.2010.11932742. ISSN 0275-9527.
Kozminuk, Angela (7 October 1996). "Arts: A conversation with Anita Rau Badami". Archived from the original on 10 November 2004. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
Ryan, Laurel (June 2008). "Constructing "Home": Eros, Thanatos, and Migration in the Novels of Anita Rau Badami". South Asian Review. 29 (1): 156–174. doi:10.1080/02759527.2008.11932583. ISSN 0275-9527.
Härting, Heike (2003). "Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk". Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne. 28 (1): 43–70. ISSN 0380-6995.