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Nationality
  
Canadian

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Tamai Kobayashi


Notable works
  
Prairie Ostrich

Period
  
1990s-present

Movies
  
Short Hymn Silent War 03


Occupation
  
novelist, short story writer

People also search for
  
Charles Officer, Kate Kung, Sandy Reimer

Books
  
Prairie Ostrich, Exile and the heart, Quixotic Erotic, All Names Spoken: Poetry an

Tamai Kobayashi (born 1965 in Japan) is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.

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

She was also a founding member of Asian Lesbians of Toronto.

Works

  • All Names Spoken (1992, ISBN 9780920813881)
  • Exile and the Heart (1998, ISBN 9780889612297)
  • Quixotic Erotic (2003, ISBN 9781551521398)
  • Prairie Ostrich (2014, ISBN 9780864926807)
  • References

    Tamai Kobayashi Wikipedia