She's a Forbes 30 under 30, an editor of the 2016 Mays Literary Anthology of New Writing from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and one of BBC's 100 Women. Within the first three months it sold a million copies and was embraced by readers worldwide.
Rupi's long-awaited second collection, the sun and her flowers, was published in 2017 and debuted as a #1 global bestseller. This magic is captured in her stage performances, which are magnetic musical interactions of poetry, art, and theater. There's a simplicity and nuance to her work that has found a home in the hearts of millions. She's a storyteller and chronicler-a repository of community and history.
Rupi explores a variety of themes in her work ranging from love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, migration, and revolution. there are hundreds of firsts i am thankful for." to craft her future whichever way i choose.
"i am the first woman in my lineage with freedom of choice. It's sold over 5 million copies, been translated into more than 35 languages, and landed as a #1 New York Times bestseller-where it has spent more than three years. In the years since, milk and honey has become an international phenomenon. While studying at the University of Waterloo, Rupi wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first collection, milk and honey. Rupi continued performing across Canada, while building a community of readers and poetry enthusiasts. She fell in love with performance poetry that night. At the age of five, her mother handed her a paintbrush and said, "draw your heart out." At seventeen, she happened upon a local open mic night where she performed her first spoken word poem. Rupi sees her work as an articulation of this vision. "i am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told." Her second book, the sun and her flowers-an instant global bestseller, is an artistic sibling to her debut, milk and honey-one of America's bestselling books of 2017. Her works have taken the literary world by storm. Rupi Kaur is a poet, artist, and performer.
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