Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist and social worker.
Biography Born in Zambia to Dawoodi Bohra Muslim expatriate parents from India, she immigrated to Canada with her family in the early 1970s.
She has published three novels to date, and won the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Grant from the Writers' Trust of Canada for an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer."Farzana Doctor to receive Dayne Ogilvie Grant" . Quill & Quire, June 1, 2011. Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, was also a nominee for the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards in the category of Lesbian Fiction,"Toronto writers up for Lambda Literary awards" . Xtra!, May 11, 2012. and was announced as the winner of the award on June 4, 2012."Farzana Doctor wins Lambda Literary Award" . Quill & Quire, June 6, 2012. In 2017, it won the One Book, One Brampton award. In 2015, her third novel, All Inclusive, was released in Canada, and it was later released in the US in 2017. It was a Kobo 2015 and National Post Best Book of the Year.
In addition to her writing career, Doctor works as a registered social worker, in a private psychotherapy practice, coordinates a regular reading series in Toronto's Brockton Village neighbourhood,"Farzana Doctor sees hyper-local reading series grow" . Xtra!, February 1, 2011. and coproduced Rewriting The Script: A Loveletter to Our Families, a documentary film about the family relationships of LGBT people in Toronto's South Asian immigrant communities.. Xtra!, November 8, 2007.
CBC Books listed Doctor's 2020 novel Seven on its list of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020.
Books Stealing Nasreen (2007) Six Metres of Pavement (Dundurn Press, 2011) All Inclusive (Dundurn Press, 2015) Seven (Dundurn Press, 2020)
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External links Farzana Doctor