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She was married to Simon Powell, the founder of the organisation Poetry Live, who died in October 2009 after an 11 year battle with cancer. [1][13] Her daughter, Ayesha (whose father is Anil Dharker), is an actress in international films, television and stage. [14] Themes.
Mar 25, 2021 · Dharker's legacy as a writing giant is compounded in part by his first wife, Imtiaz Dharker, sharing that status. Though the couple parted ways after a period of union, their contribution to the intellectual milieu and hopes for a free-thinking society has been massive in combination.
Dharker has described herself as a ‘Scottish Muslim Calvinist’ due to her Lahori family upbringing in Glasgow and during her studies, met an Indian Hindu. The two eventually married, eloping to Mumbai much to the disapproval of her family who subsequently disowned her. Despite such set backs, Dharker refused to dampen her creativity.
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow, and now lives between London and Mumbai. She works as a documentary film-maker in India, and is also an artist, having shown solo exhibitions in the UK, India and Hong Kong.
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May 26, 2024 · When she was 17 she fell in love with her first husband, married in secret and eloped to India. As a result she was disowned by her family, but began to publish her first poems. She illustrates...
Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film-maker. She was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014.She received the Cholmondeley Award and an Honorary Doctorate from SOAS, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2020 she became the Chancellor of Newcastle University.
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Imtiaz Dharker. Dharker is a poet, artist and video film-maker. She was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. She received the Cholmondeley Award and Honorary Doctorates from SOAS and Manchester Metropolitan University, and in 2020 she became the Chancellor of Newcastle University.
