Bapsi Sidhwa

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Bapsi Sidhwa
بیپسی سدھوا
British India
OccupationAuthor
NationalityPakistani[1]
Notable awardsSitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award by the Government of Pakistan (1991)
RelativesMinocher Bhandara (brother)
Isphanyar M. Bhandara (nephew)
Mohur Sidhwa (daughter)

Bapsi Sidhwa (

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" is released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citize Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa" .[3][4][5]

Background

Sidhwa was born to

Kinnaird College for Women University in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1957.[1][5]

She married at the age of 19

Zoroastrian. She had three children before beginning her career as an author. One of her children is Mohur Sidhwa,[7] who is a candidate for state representative in Arizona.[8]

She currently resides in Houston in the US. She describes herself as a "Punjabi-Parsi". Her first language is Gujarati, her second language is Urdu, and her third language is English.[9][10] She can read and write best in English, but she is more comfortable talking in Gujarati or Urdu, and often translates literally from Gujarati or Urdu to English.[9]

Teaching

She has previously taught at the University of Houston, Rice University, Columbia University, Mount Holyoke College, and Brandeis University.[1]

Awards

  • Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard (1986)[1]
  • Visiting Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy, (1991)
  • Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award, (1991, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts)[11][1]
  • Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award (1994)[1]
  • Mondello Prize (Premio Mondello for Foreign Authors) for Water (2007)[1][3]
  • Inducted in the Zoroastrian Hall of Fame (2000)[1]

Works

The city of Lahore, Pakistan, where she was brought up, is central to her four novels below:

  • Their Language of Love : published by Readings Lahore (2013, Pakistan.)
  • Jungle Wala Sahib (Translation) (Urdu) : Published by Readings Lahore (2012, Pakistan)[12]
  • City of Sin and Splendour : Writings on Lahore (2006, US)[1]
  • Water: A Novel (2006, US and Canada)[1][3]
  • Bapsi Sidhwa Omnibus (2001, Pakistan)
  • An American Brat (1993, U.S.; 1995, India)[6][1][3]
  • Cracking India (1991, U.S.; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England)[6][1][3][5]
  • The Bride (1982, England; 1983;1984, India; published as The Pakistani Bride, 1990 US and 2008 US)[1]
  • The Crow Eaters (1978, Pakistan; 1979 &1981, India; 1980, England; 1982, US)[6][1][5][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Bio of Bapsi Sidhwa. Archived from the original on February 4, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Sharma, Pranay (June 2, 2014). "Those Nights In Nairobi". Outlook (India magazine). Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Bapsi Sidhwa wins Italy's Premio Mondello". Milkweed.org website. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  4. ^ "Bapsi Sidhwa (profile)". ExploreTheirStories.org website. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d 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.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Bapsi Sidhwa profile". The Literary Encyclopedia website. July 18, 2002. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  7. ^ Allen, Howard (May 9, 2002). "Worldly Lessons". Tucson Weekly magazine. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  8. ^ "Meet Our Candidates: Mohur Sidhwa for State Representative, LD 9". Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona. July 11, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  9. ^
    ISBN 9780878055722
    .
  10. ISBN 9781482841534
    . Gujarati is the first language of Bapsi Sidhwa and most Parsis.
  11. ^ "Sense of the City: Lahore". BBC News website. July 29, 2003. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  12. ^ a b Asif Farrukhi (July 14, 2012). "Cover Story: Review of The Crow Eaters in Urdu (includes an interview with Bapsi Sidhwa)". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved November 3, 2021.

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