Proma Tagore Explained

Proma Tagore
Birth Place:Kolkata, India
Occupation:poet, editor
Period:2000s-present
Nationality:Canadian
Notableworks:language is not the only thing that breaks

Proma Tagore is a Canadian poet and editor, who was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.[1]

Born in Kolkata, India, Tagore emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of four.[2] She resides in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.[2]

She has published a poetry collection, language is not the only thing that breaks, and a non-fiction work of literary analysis, The Shapes of Silence: Writing by Women of Colour and the Politics of Testimony. She was also editor of In Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisation, an anthology of essays by students and educators on the subject of racial discrimination and decolonization.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers . . 24 June 2014 . Julie . Baldassi . 27 September 2018 .
  2. http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Dayne-Ogilvie-Grant/2013/Proma_Tagore.aspx "2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers Honour of Distinction: Proma Tagore"