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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Ali, Anar
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Anar Ali was born in Tanzania, grew up in Alberta, and now lives in Toronto. She is an M.F.A. graduate from the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. The title story from her first book, Baby Khaki's Wings, was one of the stories selected for The Journey Prize Stories 16 in 2004. |
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Fiction (Short stories)
Baby Khaki's Wings: Stories
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2006.
9th floor
PS8601 .L5 B23 2006
Publisher's Synopsis
These richly imagined tales, by turns playful and dark, and shot through with magic, depict the lives of East African Ismailis, a Muslim community with origins in India and a history of upheaval and dislocation. Set variously in Canada and East Africa, these stories portray characters caught between home and exile, between what is real and what is imagined, what is lost and what is found. ...
Awards and Honours
2006 Trillium Book Awards (Finalist)
2004 The story "Baby Khaki's Wings" was first published in the journal Filling Station. It was shortlisted for the 16th annual awarding of The Journey Prize. It appeared in The Journey Prize Stories: From the Best of Canada's New Writers (Toronto: M&S, 2004).
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Anthology (Short story)
Tok. Book 4
9th floor PS8237 .T6 T54 2009
Ali, Anar. "Safari." In Tok. Book 4, edited by Helen Walsh. Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2009, 129-149. |
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