Farzana Doctor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Farzana Doctor

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1970

Place of Birth: Zambia

Profession: writer, novelist, social worker

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist and social worker.
She has published three novels to date, and won the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Grant from the Writers' Trust of Canada for an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer.
Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, was also a nominee for the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards in the category of Lesbian Fiction, and was announced as the winner of the award on June 4, 2012.
In 2017, it won the One Book, One Brampton award.
In 2015, her third novel, All Inclusive, was released in Canada, and it was later released in the US in 2017.
It was a Kobo 2015 and National Post Best Book of the Year. Born in Zambia to Dawoodi Bohra Muslim expatriate parents from India, she immigrated to Canada with her family in the early 1970s.In addition to her writing career, Doctor works as a Registered Social Worker, in a private psychotherapy practice, coordinates a regular reading series in Toronto's Brockton Village neighbourhood, and coproduced Rewriting The Script: A Loveletter to Our Families, a documentary film about the family relationships of LGBT people in Toronto's South Asian immigrant communities.