Modern figure
Rupi Kaur
ਰੂਪੀ ਕੌਰروپی کور
Poet born in Punjab and raised in Canada whose milk and honey became one of the best-selling poetry books of the century.
Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab and moved to Canada as a small child. Her short, plain poems about love, trauma, migration and the women of her family, first shared online and in milk and honey (2014), sold millions of copies and brought a new generation to poetry.