Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami is the author of four novels: Tamarind Mem, The Hero’s Walk, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?, and Tell it to the Trees. Anita’s books are critically acclaimed and have been published in more than 18 languages across the world. She is the recipient of several awards including the Marian Engel Prize, the Regional Commonwealth Award, and the Premio Berto Prize for International Literature in Italy. Her books have been nominated or on the longlist for various other awards such as the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction), the Kiriyama Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the City of Vancouver Book Award, and the Paragraphe Hugh McLellan Prize for Fiction. Her second novel The Hero’s Walk was a Canada Reads 2016 finalist. Anita is currently working on her fifth novel It Is What It Is as well as co-authoring a non-fiction epistolary work Mixed Borders.