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| First Name | Mariam |
| Last Name | Pirbhai |
| Member Since | November 21, 2023 |
| State | Ontario |
| Country | Canada |
| Branch Affiliation | Toronto |
| Website | mariampirbhai.ca |
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| Bio | Mariam Pirbhai is an academic and creative writer. She is the author of a newly released book of creative nonfiction titled Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023), a debut novel titled Isolated Incident (Mawenzi 2022) and a short story collection titled Outside People and Other Stories (Inanna 2017), winner of the 2018 International Independent Publishers’ and American BookFest awards. She is Full Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she specializes in postcolonial literatures, diaspora studies and creative writing. She is the author and editor of book-length studies on the global South Asian diaspora and its literatures, including Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific (University of Toronto Press, 2009). She also served as President of the Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly known as CACLALS), Canada’s longest-running scholarly association devoted to postcolonial and global anglophone literatures. She was born in Pakistan and lives in Waterloo, Ontario. |
| Publications | Garden Inventories: Reflections of Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023) - Creative NonFiction Isolated Incident, a novel (Mawenzi House, 2022) – Adult Literary Fiction Outside People and Other Stories (Inanna, 2019) – Adult Literary Fiction Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature (Routledge, 2013) – co-editor/scholarly collection Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific (University of Toronto Press, 2009) – scholarly monograph |
| Other Memberships | The Writers Union of Canada Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada |
| Awards | IPPY Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction, 2018 American BookFest Award, Short Story, 2019 |
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| Genres | Academic, Biography & Memoir, Fiction, Humour & Entertainment, Nonfiction, Short Stories |
| Available For | Readings, Presentations, Workshops, Book Club Meetings, Speaking Engagements |