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Tamai Kobayashi
Born1966
Japan
Occupationnovelist, short story writer
NationalityCanadian
Period1990s-present
Notable worksPrairie Ostrich
Website
www.tamaikobayashi.com

Tamai Kobayashi (born 1966 in Japan) is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.[1]

Kobayashi was co-editor with Mona OikawaofAll Names Spoken, an anthology of lesbian writing published by Sister Vision Press in 1992.[2] She later published two short story collections, Exile and the Heart (1998) and Quixotic Erotic (2003),[3] before publishing her debut novel, Prairie Ostrich, in 2014.[4] In addition, she wrote the short film Short Hymn, Silent War, directed by Charles Officer,[5] and her short story "Panopte's Eye" appeared in the 2004 science fiction anthology So Long Been Dreaming.

Her first short film, Later, In the Life, is about two older lesbians, whose friendship is affected when one of them starts dating.[6]

She was also a founding member of Asian Lesbians of Toronto.[3]

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  • ^ W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0802007619. Chapter "Gay and Lesbian Writing", pp. 418-422.
  • ^ a b Tamai Kobayashi. Asian Heritage in Canada (Ryerson University Library and Archives), 2014.
  • ^ Susan G. Cole, "10 more must-reads". NOW, March 27, 2014.
  • ^ "HD production heats up". Playback, February 18, 2002.
  • ^ Later, in the LifeatIMDb
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