Tamai Kobayashi (born 1966 in Japan) is a

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writer, who won the

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for

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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),Tamai Kobayashi
Asian Heritage in Canada (

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Library and Archives), 2014. before publishing her

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, ''Prairie Ostrich'', in 2014. In addition, she wrote the short film '' Short Hymn, Silent War'', directed by

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, and her short story "Panopte's Eye" appeared in the 2004 science fiction anthology ''

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''. Her first short film, ''Later, In the Life'', is about two older lesbians, whose friendship is affected when one of them starts dating. She was also a founding member of Asian Lesbians of Toronto.

Works

*''All Names Spoken'' (1992, ) *''Exile and the Heart'' (1998, ) *''Quixotic Erotic'' (2003, ) *''Prairie Ostrich'' (2014, )

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