Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami’s first two novels, Tamarind Mem and The Hero’s Walk, were both international bestsellers. The Hero’s Walk won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and Caribbean) and Italy’s Premio Berto, was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize. The recipient of the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career, Badami currently resides in Montreal. Her new novel is Tell It to the Trees.