Tamai Kobayashi
Tamai Kobayashi (born 1966 in Japan) is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014. Kobayashi was co-editor with Mona Oikawa of All Names Spoken, an anthology of lesbian writing published by Sister Vision Press in 1992. She later published two short story collections, Exile and the Heart (1998) and Quixotic Erotic (2003), before publishing her debut novel, Prairie Ostrich, in 2014.
Tamai Kobayashi
- Name
- Tamai Kobayashi
- Born
- 1966
- Birthplace
- Japan
- Occupation
- novelist, short story writer
- Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- Canadian Film Centre
- Honours
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize
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Tamai Kobayashi (born 1966 in Japan) is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014. Kobayashi was co-editor with Mona Oikawa of All Names Spoken, an anthology of lesbian writing published by Sister Vision Press in 1992. She later published two short story collections, Exile and the Heart (1998) and Quixotic Erotic (2003), before publishing her debut novel, Prairie Ostrich, in 2014.
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In addition, she wrote the short film Short Hymn, Silent War, directed by Charles Officer, and her short story "Panopte's Eye" appeared in the 2004 science fiction anthology So Long Been Dreaming. Her first short film, Later, In the Life, is about two older lesbians, whose friendship is affected when one of them starts dating. She was also a founding member of Asian Lesbians of Toronto.
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• Name — Tamai Kobayashi • Born — 1966 • Birthplace — Japan • Occupation — novelist, short story writer • Period — 1990s-present • Notable Works — Prairie Ostrich • Website — http: www.tamaikobayashi.com/
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• All Names Spoken (1992) • Exile and the Heart (1998) • Quixotic Erotic (2003) • Prairie Ostrich (2014)
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- 1.Tamai Kobayashi auf: cbc.ca, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
- 2.Tamai Kobayashi: Let’s do the Time Warp again auf: nationalpost.com, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
- 3.Asian Heritage in Canada – Tamai Kobayashi auf: library.ryerson.ca, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
- 4.Nancy Jo Cullen, Dayne Ogilvie Prize winner Tamai Kobayashi on finding the story auf: plenitudemagazine.ca, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
- 5.Tom Hastings, "Gay and Lesbian Writing" und Michael Batts "Multicultural Voices", in: William H. New (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8020-0761-9, S. 422 und S. 768.
- 6.Gertrude M. James Gonzalez und Anne J. M. Mamary (Hrsg.), Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7914-3966-1, S. 371.
- 7.Short Hymn, Silent War auf: cfccreates.com, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
- 8.Charles Officer auf: cfccreates.com, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
- 9.Short Hymn_Silent War auf: history.sundance.org, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
- 10.Audrey T. McCluskey, Frame by Frame Three. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-253-34829-6, S. 652.
- 11.2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers Winner: Tamai Kobayashi auf: writerstrust.com, abgerufen am 10. August 2015 (englisch).
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