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Recognized as a CBC's Best Books of 2019

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Recognized as a CBC's Best Books of 2019

Winner of a Top 100 Most Powerful Women Award

Winner of a Top 100 Most Powerful Women Award

Meet Samra Zafar

“TOP 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN” AWARD WINNER
Samra Zafar is an award-winning internationally renowned speaker, bestselling author and educator for equity, mental health, and human rights. She has been recognized among the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, Top 25 Most Inspirational Women in Canada, and Top 25 Canadian Immigrants. Her book, A Good Wife: Escaping The Life I Never Chose, based on her journey of escaping an abusive child marriage to pursue her education, shed light on gender-based oppression, is a national bestseller, was one of CBC's Best Books of 2019, and is being adapted to a premium TV series. She serves as a Governor at the University of Toronto, a Celebrated Ambassador for Plan International, and a board member for Women's College Hospital Foundation. Her work has impacted millions and has been extensively featured in national and global media. Samra's speaking portfolio includes three successful TED Talks, and many leading corporations, universities, and nonprofits around the world.

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Internationally Acclaimed Speaker

Known for inspiring audiences globally, Samra speaks on topics related to collective resilience, authentic leadership, inclusive workplaces, youth, human rights, and more.

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Author of Bestseller
A Good Wife

CBC BOOKS “2019 BEST BOOKS OF THE OF YEAR” FOR CANADIAN NONFICTION
A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose became an instant bestseller following publication in March 2019. The book secured second place on The Globe and Mail’s bestselling Canadian non-fiction list and, in December 2019, it was listed on CBC Books “Best Books of the Year for Canadian Nonfiction” list.
“A teenage girl is pressured to marry a much older man and move to a foreign land. If you think you know this story, that it is a stereotype, you are wrong. A Good Wife is not the story of an abused woman. This is a memoir of ambition, how the very thing that lured Samra Zafar into an abusive marriage ultimately galvanized her escape and success. With unflinching candour, Zafar dissects the forces constricting her: culture, religion, her parents’ difficult marriage, their uneasy complicity in hers, the intergenerational expectations that shackled her in-laws, even her own naivete. Thorny and surprising, her story is all the more heartbreaking for its complexities. Zafar has penned a rare memoir, a life story worth reading and an emotional roller coaster that will leave you feeling empowered at the end. This is a modern-day fairy tale where the heroine saves her own life.” —SHARON BALA, bestselling author of The Boat People

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Top 100 Most Powerful Women

In 2019, Samra was named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. This award recognizes women in Canada who have demonstrated resilience and strength and who are committed to inspiring and advocating for others.

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Top 25 Canadian
Immigrant Award Winner

In 2019, Samra Zafar was awarded a prestigious Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award for her activism, for being brave in the face of adversity and hardships, and for showing Canadians that they can achieve what they set their minds to regardless of their circumstances.

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Find out what keeps you up at night, and what wakes you up every morning. What’s the impact you want to make. What’s the change you want to create. That’s your purpose. Then live it.