Soraya Peerbaye is a

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writer."Pulled punches". ''

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'', January 30, 2001. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2010 for her poetry collection ''Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names'',"Soraya Peerbaye"
''Asian Heritage in Canada'' (

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Library and Archives). and for the

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in 2016 for ''Tell: poems for a girlhood''."2016 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announced"
CBC Books, April 11, 2016. She was born in

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to Indo-Mauritian immigrant parents from

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. She was educated at

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and the

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, and is currently based in

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1971 births 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Canadian women poets Canadian people of Mauritian descent Canadian people of Indian descent Writers from London, Ontario Writers from Toronto University of Guelph alumni York University alumni Living people 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Franco-Ontarian people Khoja Ismailism {{Canada-playwright-stub