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Ira Mathur

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Born

Gawahati, India

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Fiction, Memoir

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Ira Mathur is an Indian-born Trinidadian award winning multimedia journalist with degrees in Literature, Law and Journalism. www.irasroom.org .She is currently the Trinidad Guardian's longest-running columnist , and has freelanced for The Guardian (UK) and the BBC.
IN 2021 Mathur was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award for her unpublished novel ''Touching Dr Simone.''
In 2019 Mathur was longlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. An excerpt of her memoir is anthologized in Thicker Than Water, (Peekash Press, 2018).
In 2018 she shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize, the Lorian Hemmingway (short story) and Small Axe Literary Competition.
Mathur gained diplomas in creative writing at the University of East Angli ...more

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Ira Mathur The book has been within me perhaps since I was six when my grandmother was telling me stories that were already 600 years old . Writing this was an i…moreThe book has been within me perhaps since I was six when my grandmother was telling me stories that were already 600 years old . Writing this was an impulse of gathering up the past and saving it .I left India as a child and in the new world it was an act of remembering. So much was robbed of new world inhabitants in particular language and place and sense of being rooted . I saw that in the history of Trinidad and Tobago and saw how necessary it is for people to remember their origins. But there is much that is good about forgetting too. New world people don’t have atavistic hatreds over race and religion . There are squabbles but not hatreds . So I wrote of an Indian childhood and saw Trinidad anew guided by eyes that loved our new world .(less)

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	Love The Dark Days 4.10 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thicker Than Water: New Writing From The Caribbean by Funso Aiyejina (Editor ), Nicolette Bethel, Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Sparrow Take Over: Essays on the Bard's Art by Donna Benny, Gordon Rohlehr (Contributor), Ira Mathur (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars