Imtiaz Dharker
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'Imtiaz Dharker' is a Pakistani-British poet and documentary film-maker. She was born in Lahore in 1954 to Pakistani parents, but she was brought up in Glasgow where her family moved to during her teens. She currently lives in Mumbai with her Hindu husband, but spends time in London also.[1] She has written three books of poetry, conceived as sequences of poems and drawings.[1] The main themes of her poetry are home, freedom, journeys, geographical and cultural displacement, communal conflict and gender politics.[1]
She is a prescribed poet on the AQA GCSE English syllabus. Her poems 'Blessing' and 'This Room' are in AQA Anthology, Different Cultures, Cluster 1 and 2 respectively.[citation needed]
She is also an artist and documentary-maker. In 1980, she won an award for a short film.[citation needed]
[edit] Works
- Purdah. (Oxford University Press, 1989)
- Postcards from god. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1997) ISBN 1-85224-407-0
- I Speak for the Devil. (Bloodaxe 2001; Penguin Books India, 2003)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Imtiaz Dharker (HTML). Poetry International Web. Retrieved on November 20, 2006.
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| NAME | Dharker, Imtiaz |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary British-Indian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahore, Pakistan |
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