Ashok Mathur

Author

1961 –

71

Who is Ashok Mathur?

Ashok Mathur is a South Asian cultural organizer, writer and visual artist, and an Associate Professor in the departments of Visual and Performing Arts / Journalism, Communications, New Media at Thompson Rivers University. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry, and is the director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada.

Mathur is the author of a volume of poetry, and three novels:

Once Upon an Elephant recounts the story of the birth of Ganesh as a Canadian courtroom drama.

The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and blends the Ramayana with modern Canada.

A Little Distillery in Nowgong follows three generations of a Parsi family from India to North America. Along with the novel, Mathur also produced an associated art installation, which was shown in Vancouver, Ottawa, and Kamloops.

Additionally, Mathur's artwork "one hundred thirty-three thousand five hundred twenty-eight words and a super-8 grab" was part of a 2009 acquisition by the Canada Council Art Bank.

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Born
1961
Bhopal
Education
  • University of Calgary

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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