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Anosh Irani

Anosh Irani (born 1974) is an Indian-Canadian novelist

and playwright. An Irani (like Parsi, but of more recent

Iranian  extraction), he was born and raised in  Mumbai,

although he has indicated that he personally prefers the

city’s traditional English name, Bombay. After working

in advertising in India, he moved to Vancouver in 1998 to

study and pursue writing.

His first full-length play,  The Matka King, premiered in

October 2003 at the Arts Club Theatre Company in Van-

couver. His play, Bombay Black , won four Dora Awards,

including Outstanding New Play. Irani was also featuredin Quill & Quire as one of a handful of young Canadian

“writers to watch.”

He published his debut novel, The Cripple and His Talis-

mans , in 2004. This dark fable won critical acclaim for its

magic realist depiction of the seedy beggars’ underworld

of India.

Irani’s second novel, The Song of Kahunsha, was chosen

as a CBC Book Club One pick, and was selected for the

2007 edition of Canada Reads , where it was championed

by Donna Morrissey. Kahunsha is a story about the aban-

doned children of Bombay, struggling for survival and to

hold on to hope amidst the violence of the 1993 racial

riots.

His third novel, Dahanu Road (novel), was published in

2010.

His latest play,   My Granny the Goldfish, premiered at

the Arts Club Theatre Company’s new venue, The Revue

Stage, in Vancouver on April 16, 2010.

1 Education

From 1998 Irani attended the   University of British

Columbia. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Creative

Writing in 2002.

In September 2012, Irani taught a Creative Writing

course at Simon Fraser University.

Starting in September 2013, Irani will be teaching a Cre-

ative Writing course on Playwriting at McGill University.

In September 2014, Irani was the Writer-in-Residence at

Simon Fraser University in the World Literature depart-ment. He also taught a special topics course, “Writing for

the Stage.”

2 Works

•  The Matka King  (2003, play)

•  The Cripple and His Talismans  (2004, novel) ISBN

978-1-55192-803-6, Raincoast Books

•  The Song of Kahunsha  (2006, novel) ISBN 978-0-

385-66229-1, Anchor Canada

•  Bombay Black  (2006, play)

•   Dahanu Road   (2010, novel)   ISBN 978-0-385-

66699-2, Doubleday Canada

•  My Granny the Goldfish (2010, play)

3 External links

•  Anosh Irani’s Website

•  Anosh Irani interview on cbc.ca

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  Online interview from CBC Words at Large

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