Bapsi Sidhwa بیپسی سدھوا | |
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 Bapsi Sidhwa at the 2008 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | 11 August 1938 Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Pakistani[1] |
| Notable awards | Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award by the Government of Pakistan (1991) |
| Relatives | Minocher Bhandara (brother) Isphanyar M. Bhandara (nephew) Mohur Sidhwa (daughter) |
Bapsi Sidhwa (Urdu: بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani[1] novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent[2] who writes in English and is a resident in the United States.
She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel, on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" was released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citizens Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with the title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa".[3][4][5]
- ^ a b Bio of Bapsi Sidhwa. Archived from the original on February 4, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
- ^ Sharma, Pranay (June 2, 2014). "Those Nights In Nairobi". Outlook (India magazine). Retrieved November 3, 2021.
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- ^ Shashi Tharoor (October 6, 1991). "Life With Electric-aunt and Slavesister (A review of Bapsi Sidhwa's book)". The New York Times. Retrieved November 3, 2021.