Fonds consists of correspondence, drafts, articles, reviews, and other records created and accumulated by Anita Rau Badami in the course of her career as a writer. Includes drafts of her first three novels: Tamarind Mem (1997), The Hero’s Walk and Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?. There are no records related to her last novel, Tell it to the Trees (2011). The records have been arranged in the following four series: Personal records (1992-2003); Tamarind Mem (1994-2001); The Hero’s Walk (1999-2005); Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2003-2006).
Series consists of notebooks containing drafts and notes, unbound drafts, and copies edited for the novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? It also includes articles, interviews and reviews from Canadian and international newspapers.
Subseries consists of articles and reviews of the novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? published in Canadian and international magazines and newspapers.
File includes correspondence over the correction of some chapters of The Hero’s Walk and Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? It includes invitation to the 2001 Vancouver International Writers and Reader Festival and 2002 Adelaide Festival. The file also includes articles and general correspondence on Anita Badami’s everyday life
The file includes the transcription of the interview made in Nanaimo campus – Malaspina University College on October 28, 1996 after the publication of Anita Badami’s first novel Tamarind Mem
Scope and content: File includes handwritten notebook titled “Ideas” with no date and three floppy disks titled “Anita thesis U of C.”, “SM stories children pieces”, and “Latest Kamini main disc”. It includes also congratulations from the Department of English of the University of Calgary regarding her M.A. dissertation and her curriculum vitae