Anosh Irani

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Anosh Irani's signature on a copy of his novel The Parcel
Anosh Irani on Bookbits radio talks about Dahanu Road.

Anosh Irani (born 1974) is an Indo-Canadian novelist and playwright, born and raised in Mumbai.

Career

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Anosh Irani has published four critically acclaimed novels: The Cripple and His Talismans (2004), a national bestseller; The Song of Kahunsha (2006), which was an international bestseller and shortlisted for Canada Reads and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; Dahanu Road (2010), which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize; and The Parcel (2016), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.[1][2]

His play Bombay Black (2006) won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, as did his one-man show Buffoon (2019). His anthology The Bombay Plays: The Matka King & Bombay Black (2007) and his play The Men in White (2018) were both finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, and in 2023 Irani was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award.[3][4] His latest play, Behind the Moon (2023), was a finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play.

Irani’s short stories have appeared in Granta and the Los Angeles Review of Books and have been collected in Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth (2019). His nonfiction has been published in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Guardian, and the New York Times. His work has been translated into eleven languages, and he teaches fiction and playwriting in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.[5]

Works

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  • 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)
  • The Parcel (2016, novel)[6]
  • Swimming coach. In Granta # 141, Canada, 2017, pp 123 – 135

References

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  1. ^ "Two debut novelists among this year’s Writers’ Trust nominees". The Globe and Mail, 21 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Governor-General’s Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, 4 October 2016.
  3. ^ "The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Nicole Thompson, "Kai Thomas wins Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for debut novel". Toronto Star, November 21, 2023.
  5. ^ "Anosh Irani". www.anoshirani.com. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  6. ^ "How Mumbai's red light district and transgender community 'haunted and inspired' Anosh Irani". National Post. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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