Born in Lahore in 1954, Imtiaz Dharker left for Glasgow where she grew up as a Muslim migrant woman whose subsequent existence oscillated between the UK and India. She is the author of five anthologies of poetry:
Purdah(1989),
Postcards from god(1997),
I speak for the Devil(2001),
The Terrorist at My Table(2006), and
Leaving Fingerprints(2009). She is also an accomplished painter – many of her poems are also accompanied by her sketches – and she works as a documentary filmmaker. Her poems have been included in several anthologies, and in 2011 she was elected as a fellow to the Royal Society of Literature. She also received the Cholmondeley Prize from the Society of Authors in the same year.
Her poetry moves through a rich tapestry of geographical and cultural displacements,
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Citation: Chakraborty, Abin. "Imtiaz Dharker". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 March 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13333, accessed 23 November 2024.]
