Biography
Ira Mathur is an Indian-born multi-media Trinidad based journalist and Trinidad Guardian columnist and the recipient of nine regional awards for excellence in journalism. In 2013 and 2014 she a finalist for the Hollick Arvon Prize. In 2018 Mathur was shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize, and the Lorian Hemmingway (short story) Prize. In 2019 she was longlisted for the 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. She is the 2018 second prize winner of the Caribbean based Small Axe Literary Competition for short fiction. An excerpt from her novel in progress is anthologized in Thicker Than Water, Peekash Press, 2018.
All events with Ira Mathur
Family matters: new fiction by Caroline Mackenzie and Ingrid Persaud
20 Sep 2020
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Online
Family Matters
18 Aug 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Grand Market
Take Two: Ingrid Persaud and Celeste Mohammed
26 Apr 2018
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
AV Room
Discussion: Are all rights created equal?
27 Apr 2017
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Old Fire Station