Farzana Doctor

Farzana Doctor
Farzana Doctor
Born Zambia
Occupation Writer
Nationality Canadian
Period 2000s-present
Notable works Six Metres of Pavement
Notable awards 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize
2012 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Website
www.farzanadoctor.com

Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist and social worker. 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.[1] Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, was also a nominee for the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards in the category of Lesbian Fiction,[2] and was announced as the winner of the award on June 4, 2012.[3] 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.

Born in Zambia to Dawoodi Bohra Muslim expatriate parents from India, she immigrated to Canada with her family in the early 1970s.[4][5][6]

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]

Books

References

  1. ↑ "Farzana Doctor to receive Dayne Ogilvie Grant" Archived August 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.. Quill & Quire, June 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Toronto writers up for Lambda Literary awards". Xtra!, May 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Farzana Doctor wins Lambda Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jayanthi Madhukar (21 Jan 2013). "Evangelist She Is Not". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Shaukat Ajmeri (26 September 2015). "Farzana Doctor: Making the write choice". Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  6. ↑ ROB MCLENNAN (15 November 2015). "12 or 20 (second series) questions with Farzana Doctor". Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Farzana Doctor sees hyper-local reading series grow". Xtra!, February 1, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Farzana Doctor touring new novel". Xtra!, November 8, 2007.
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