Farzana Doctor
Farzana Doctor (born December 16, 1970 in the Republic of Zambia ) is a Canadian writer , film producer and social worker .
Life
Farzana Doctor was born in Zambia in 1970. Her parents are from India. In the early 1970s, the family emigrated from Zambia to Canada.
Doctor graduated from McMaster University in 1990 with a Master of Social Work . Doctor works as a social worker and psychotherapist as well as a consultant at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto .
As a member of the queer video collective Friday Night Productions, she co-produced the documentary Rewriting The Script: A Loveletter to Our Families in 2001 .
Doctors prose and poetry appeared a. a. in Siren Magazine and the anthology Aurat Durbar - The Court of Women. Writings by Women of South Asian Origin . In 2007 her debut novel Stealing Nasreen was published for the Masala! Mehndi! Masti! People's Choice Award was nominated. In 2011 she received the Dayne Ogilvie Grant for LGBT Emerging Writers from the Writers' Trust of Canada. Her second novel Six Meters of Pavement won the Rainbow Award for Best Contemporary Lesbian General Fiction in 2011 and the Lambda Literary Award 2012 in the Lesbian Fiction category . Since 2009 Doctor has curated a reading series in Brockton Village, Toronto, whose guest readers are supposed to reflect Canadian literature and Canadian diversity .
Works
- Novels
- Stealing Nasreen. Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9782233-0-4 .
- Six Meters of Pavement. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-55488-767-5 .
- All inclusive. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-45973-181-3 .
- Non-fiction
Angela M. Barbara, Gloria Chaim and Farzana Doctor, Asking the Right Questions 2: Talking about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity during Assessment for Drug and Alcohol Concerns , Toronto: Center for Addiction and Mental Health, 2004, ISBN 978-0-88868- 469-1 .
- Movie
- Rewriting The Script: A Loveletter to Our Families (2001, with the video collective Friday Night Productions ).
Awards
- 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Fellowship from the Writers' Trust of Canada
- 2011 Rainbow Award for Six Meters of Pavement
- 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Six Meters of Pavement
Web links
- Author website Farzana Doctor .
- Courtney Gillette, Six Meters of Pavement by Farzana Doctor .
- Angela M. Barbara, Gloria Chaim and Farzana Doctor, Asking the Right Questions 2: Talking about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity during Assessment for Drug and Alcohol Concerns ( French: Poser les bonnes questions 2 ).
- Friday Night Productions, Rewriting The Script: A Loveletter to Our Families , (Video, 46 minutes, English).
- Literature by and about Farzana Doctor in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Farzana Doctor wins Lambda Literary Award at: quillandquire.com , accessed on August 9, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Farzana Doctor '90 , at: alumni.os.mcmaster.ca , accessed on August 9, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Farzana Doctor, Farzana Doctor MSW, RSW - Psychotherapy and Consulting , at: farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com , accessed on August 9, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Joshua Ginsberg, Farzana Doctor touring new novel , at: dailyxtra.com , accessed on August 9, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Rewriting the Script: Love Letter to Our Families , on: vtape.org , accessed on August 9, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Stealing Nasreen a novel by Farzana Doctor - About the Author , on: inanna.ca , accessed on August 9, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Six Meters of Pavement at: dundurn.com , accessed on August 9, 2015.
- ↑ Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Farzana Doctor sees hyper-local reading series grow , on: dailyxtra.com , accessed on August 9, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Brockton Writers Series at: brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com , accessed August 9, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doctor, Farzana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian writer, film producer and social worker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Republic of Zambia |