Description:

I am a student of modern languages as a homework I have to make a blog writing about a famous person and I have chosen Rupi Kaur in this blog you will find her biography, important events in her life and her books.

Biography:

Rupi Kaur is an Indian born Canadian poet, writer, illustrator, and performer.Kaur was born into a Sikh family in Punjab, India. She immigrated to Canada with her parents when she was four years old. Unable to speak English with other children at her school, Kaur was inspired by her mother to draw and paint. She would write poems to her friends on their birthdays and messages to her middle school crushes. She attended Turner Fenton Secondary School.

Kaur studied rhetoric and professional writing at the University of Waterloo. Later, she and her family moved to Brampton. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.

She started drawing at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and said—draw your heart out. rupi views her life as an exploration of that artistic journey. after completing her degree in rhetoric studies she published her first collection of poems milk and honey in 2014. the internationally acclaimed collection sold well over a million copies gracing the new york times bestsellers list every week for over a year. it has since been translated into over thirty languages. her long-awaited second collection ‘the sun and her flowers’ was published in 2017. through this collection she continues to explore a variety of themes ranging from love. loss. trauma. healing. femininity. migration. ‘revolution'.