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 28 March 2024.]

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