Shree Ghatage is an Indo-Canadian writer.
Born in Bombay, India

India

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 Ghatage moved to Canada

Canada

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 in 1983, settling in St. John's

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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, Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador

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She has won three awards in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition.

Her written works share a common theme, describing life in India based on her own memories and experiences. Ghatage's first book, Awake When All the World is Asleep (1997), a collection of short stories set in Bombay, was awarded the Thomas Head Raddall Award

Thomas Head Raddall Award

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She currently lives in Calgary

Calgary

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, Alberta

Alberta

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Awards

• Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, 1998
• Shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award, 1998.
• Shortlisted for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award, 1998.
• Shortlisted for the Emerging Artist Award in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1998.