Anita Rau Badami
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 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 honors
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

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1961 births
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
Indian women novelists
Living people
Indian emigrants to Canada
People from Rourkela
Canadian women novelists
Canadian writers of Asian descent
Canadian people of Indian descent
English-language writers from India
Sophia College for Women alumni
20th-century Indian women writers
20th-century Indian writers
21st-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Sophia Polytechnic alumni
Women writers from Odisha
Novelists from Odisha
Writers from Vancouver
20th-century Canadian women writers