Key facts
- Born
- 24 February 1942, Kolkata
- State of birth
- Kolkata, West Bengal
- Sector
- Literature & writing
- Profession
- Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
- Gender
- Female
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Biography
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic. She is a professor at Columbia University and a founding member of Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
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Timeline
- 1942Born in Kolkata
- 1995Awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2012Awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
- 2014Awarded the honorary doctor of Paris 8 University
- 2021Awarded the Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 2024Awarded the honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University
- 2025Awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize
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