Soraya Peerbaye

Soraya Peerbaye is a Canadian writer.[1] She was a shortlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2010 for her poetry collection Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names,[2] and for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016 for Tell: poems for a girlhood.[3]

Her other writing has included the plays Hijab[4] and Girlwrecked.[5]

She was born in London, Ontario to immigrant parents from Mauritius.[2] She was educated at York University and the University of Guelph, and is currently based in Toronto.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Pulled punches". The Globe and Mail, January 30, 2001.
  2. 1 2 3 "Soraya Peerbaye". Asian Heritage in Canada (Ryerson University Library and Archives).
  3. ↑ "2016 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announced". CBC Books, April 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Not your father's ethnic fest" Desh Pardesh is evolving into a festival of cultural resistance". Toronto Star, June 5, 1997.
  5. ↑ "So many intriguing things left unsaid and unseen". National Post, January 31, 2001.


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