Tamai Kobayashi
Tamai Kobayashi (* 1965 in Japan ) is a Canadian writer , screenwriter , editor and LGBT activist.
Life and work
Kobayashi was born in Japan in 1965. From early childhood she grew up in Canada, in the Toronto neighborhood of Etobicoke . She is a founding member of the Asian Lesbians of Toronto (ALOT).
Kobayashi studied creative writing at the University of Calgary . In 1992 she and Mona Oikawa edited the anthology All Names Spoken with poems and prose by lesbian authors. Kobayashi published his own short stories in literary magazines and anthologies, including a. in Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture # 30 (1990) and Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Color Anthology (1991). In 1998 she published her first book of short stories, Exile and the Heart .
In 2002 Kobayashi wrote the script for the short film Short Hymn, Silent War , with the Jamaican- Canadian director Charles Officer . a. ran at the Toronto International Film Festival 2002 and the Sundance Film Festival 2004. Short Hymn, Silent War was named Best Canadian Short Film 2002 (Best Canadian Short Film) in Toronto and Best Live Action Short Drama at the 24th Genie Awards 2003.
Kobayashi's debut novel Prairie Ostrich won the 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers.
Works
- Novels
- Prairie Ostrich. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2014, ISBN 978-0864926807 .
- Short stories
- Exile And The Heart: Lesbian Fiction. Toronto: Women's Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0889612297 .
- Quixotic Erotic Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1551521398 .
- script
- Short Hymn, Silent War (2002, with Charles Officer)
- further publications
- Tamai Kobayashi and Mona Oikawa (Eds.), All Names Spoken: Poetry and Prose. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1992 ISBN 978-0920813881 .
Prices
- 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize
Web links
- Author's website Tamai Kobayashi
- Tamai Kobayashi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tamai Kobayashi at: cbc.ca , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Tamai Kobayashi: Let's do the Time Warp again at: nationalpost.com , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Asian Heritage in Canada - Tamai Kobayashi at: library.ryerson.ca , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Nancy Jo Cullen, Dayne Ogilvie Prize winner Tamai Kobayashi on finding the story at: plenitudemagazine.ca , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Tom Hastings, "Gay and Lesbian Writing" and Michael Batt's "Multicultural Voices," in: William H. New (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8020-0761-9 , pp. 422 and 768.
- ^ Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne J. M. Mamary (Eds.), Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999 ISBN 978-0-7914-3966-1 , p. 371.
- ↑ Short Hymn, Silent War at: cfccreates.com , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Charles Officer on: cfccreates.com , accessed on 10 August 2015 (English).
- ↑ Short Hymn_Silent War on: history.sundance.org , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Audrey T. McCluskey, Frame by Frame Three . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-253-34829-6 , pp. 652.
- ↑ 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers Winner: Tamai Kobayashi at: writerstrust.com , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kobayashi, Tamai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese-Canadian writer, screenwriter, editor, and LGBT activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Japan |