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Ira Mathur

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Biography

Ira Mathur is an award-winning India-born Trinidadian multimedia journalist. Her memoir Love the Dark Days (Peepal Tree Press) was the winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction, and shortlisted for the overall prize. It was also named as among the best biographies of 2022 by the UK Guardian. In 2021 she was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award for her unpublished novel Touching Dr Simone. Mathur gained diplomas in creative writing at the University of East Anglia/Guardian with Gillian Slovo and James Scudamore and at The Faber Academy with Maggie Gee. She is currently the Trinidad Guardian’s longest-running columnist and has freelanced for the UK Guardian and the BBC. She is the current President of the Media Association of Trinidad & Tobago (MATT). She has degrees in literature and law, and a Master’s in International Journalism. Her body of journalism is available on www.irasroom.org.

Years Attended

2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Bocas UK Tour, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Ira Mathur

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Ira Mathur
2025
Writers First: Part 2
Festival Programme Event
Writers First Event
Event Date: May 2, 2025 @ 1:00 pm
AV Room
2023
Take Three: Ira Mathur, Brian Samuel, and Simone Dalton
Festival Programme Event
Life Stories Event
Event Date: April 30, 2023 @ 11:00 am
AV Room
2022
Coming and going
Season of Independence Event
Event Date: September 22, 2022 @ 7:00 pm