Farzana
Doctor
Farzana Doctor is a writer, activist, and psychotherapist. Her first novel, Stealing Nasreen, was published in 2007. She won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2011 and her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. All Inclusive was a 2015 Kobo and National Post Best Book of the Year while Seven was shortlisted for the Trillium and Evergreen Awards. Her poetry collection You Still Look The Same was released in 2022. She lives with her partner in Tkaronto, the ancestral traditional territories of the Ojibway, the Anishnabe, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit.
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“With her first novel, Stealing Nasreen, and now her discerning new novel, Six Metres of Pavement, it’s hard to imagine a gentler protestor than Farzana Doctor, but protest she does: racism, sexism, ageism, and homophobia all fall before her gentle yet powerful touch. She is a writer to cherish and reread when we feel the world lacks a moral centre.” -- 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers Jury (Jen Sookfong Lee, Jeffrey Round, and Zoe Whittall)
