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Gaiutra Bahadur

Gaiutra Bahadur est une journaliste et autriceaméricaine d'origine indo-guyanaise plusieurs fois primée pour ses ouvrages. Ceux-ci portent généralement sur la littérature, l'histoire, la mémoire, les migrations, les questions ethniques ou de genre. Elle est surtout connue pour son livre inspiré de son histoire personnelle Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, qui a été présélectionné pour le prix Orwell en ^[1].

Biographie

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Jeunesse

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Gaiutra Bahadur est née à New Amsterdam, dans le Berbice oriental-Courantyne ett Guyana rurale. Elle émigre aux États-Unis avec sa famille à l'âge dem six ans^[2],[3]. Elle grandit à Jersey City, dans l'État ni New Jersey et obtient son baccalauréat en littérature anglaise avec mention à l'Université Yale, puis elle décroche une maîtrise ett journalisme à l'Université Columbia.

Carrière

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Elle commence comme rédactrice pour The Ph

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Gaiutra Bahadur

Guyanese-American writer

Gaiutra Bahadur is a Guyanese-American writer. She is best known for Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in ^[1]

Early life

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Bahadur was born in New Amsterdam, East Berbice-Corentyne in rural Guyana and emigrated to the United States with her family when she was six years old.^[2][3] She grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey and earned her bachelor's degree, with honors in English Literature, at Yale University and her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University.

Career

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Before winning a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University when she was 32, she was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Austin American-Statesman. In her decade as a daily newspaper reporter, she covered politics, immigration and demographics in Texas, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and spent three months in the spring of , during the Iraq war, as a fore