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Pakistani writer
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" 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" .
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Background
Sidhwa was born to
Parsi
Zoroastrian parents Peshotan and Tehmina Bhandara in
Karachi ,
Bombay Presidency , and later moved with her family to
Lahore ,
Punjab Province .
[6]
[1] She was two years old when she contracted
polio (which has affected her throughout her life) and nine in 1947 at the time of
Partition (facts which would shape the character Lenny in her novel
Cracking India as well as the background for her novel).
[6] She received her BA from
Kinnaird College for Women University in
Lahore , Pakistan, in 1957.
[1]
[5]
She married at the age of 19
[1] and moved to
Bombay for five years before she divorced and remarried in
Lahore with her present husband Noshir who is also a
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)
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[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)
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References
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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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"Bapsi Sidhwa wins Italy's Premio Mondello" . Milkweed.org website. Archived from
the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved November 3, 2021 .
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"Bapsi Sidhwa (profile)" . ExploreTheirStories.org website . Retrieved November 3, 2021 .
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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 .
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"Bapsi Sidhwa profile" . The Literary Encyclopedia website . July 18, 2002. Retrieved November 3, 2021 .
^ Allen, Howard (May 9, 2002).
"Worldly Lessons" . Tucson Weekly magazine . Retrieved November 3, 2021 .
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"Meet Our Candidates: Mohur Sidhwa for State Representative, LD 9" . Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona . July 11, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2021 .
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b Jussawalla, Feroza F.; Dasenbrock, Reed Way (1992).
Interviews with Writers of the Post-colonial World .
University Press of Mississippi . p.
214 .
ISBN
9780878055722 .
^ Deshmukh, Ajay Sahebrao (2014). Ethnic Angst: A Comparative Study of Bapsi Sidhwa & Rohinton Mistry . Partridge Publishing. p. 247.
ISBN
9781482841534 . Gujarati is the first language of Bapsi Sidhwa and most Parsis.
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"Sense of the City: Lahore" . BBC News website . July 29, 2003. Retrieved November 3, 2021 .
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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 .
External links
Special Jury Prize:
Denise McSmith (1975) •
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) •
Jurij Trifonov (1978) •
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) •
Pietro Consagra (1980) •
Ignazio Buttitta ,
Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983) •
Leonardo Sciascia (1985) •
Wang Meng (1987) •
Mikhail Gorbaciov (1988) •
Peter Carey ,
José Donoso ,
Northrop Frye ,
Jorge Semprún ,
Wole Soyinka ,
Lu Tongliu (1990) •
Fernanda Pivano (1992) •
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993) •
Dong Baoucum ,
Fan Boaci ,
Wang Huanbao ,
Shi Peide ,
Chen Yuanbin (1995) •
Xu Huainzhong ,
Xiao Xue ,
Yu Yougqnan ,
Qin Weinjung (1996) •
Khushwant Singh (1997) •
Javier Marías (1998) •
Francesco Burdin (2001) •
Luciano Erba (2002) •
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003) •
Marina Rullo (2006) •
Andrea Ceccherini (2007) •
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) •
Francesco Forgione (2010)
First work:
Valerio Magrelli (1980) •
Ferruccio Benzoni , Stefano Simoncelli,
Walter Valeri ,
Laura Mancinelli (1981) •
Jolanda Insana (1982) •
Daniele Del Giudice (1983) •
Aldo Busi (1984) •
Elisabetta Rasy ,
Dario Villa (1985) •
Marco Lodoli ,
Angelo Mainardi (1986) •
Marco Ceriani ,
Giovanni Giudice (1987) •
Edoardo Albinati ,
Silvana La Spina (1988) •
Andrea Canobbio ,
Romana Petri (1990) •
Anna Cascella (1991) •
Marco Caporali ,
Nelida Milani (1992) •
Silvana Grasso ,
Giulio Mozzi (1993) •
Ernesto Franco (1994) •
Roberto Deidier (1995) •
Giuseppe Quatriglio ,
Tiziano Scarpa (1996) •
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997) •
Alba Donati (1998) •
Paolo Febbraro (1999) •
Evelina Santangelo (2000) •
Giuseppe Lupo (2001) •
Giovanni Bergamini ,
Simona Corso (2003) •
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004) •
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005) •
Francesco Fontana (2006) •
Paolo Fallai (2007) •
Luca Giachi (2008) •
Carlo Carabba (2009) •
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Italian Author:
Alberto Moravia (1982) •
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) •
Italo Calvino (1984) •
Mario Luzi (1985) •
Paolo Volponi (1986) •
Luigi Malerba (1987) •
Oreste del Buono (1988) •
Giovanni Macchia (1989) •
Gianni Celati ,
Emilio Villa (1990) •
Andrea Zanzotto (1991) •
Ottiero Ottieri (1992) •
Attilio Bertolucci (1993) •
Luigi Meneghello (1994) •
Fernando Bandini ,
Michele Perriera (1995) •
Nico Orengo (1996) •
Giuseppe Bonaviri ,
Giovanni Raboni (1997) •
Carlo Ginzburg (1998) •
Alessandro Parronchi (1999) •
Elio Bartolini (2000) •
Roberto Alajmo (2001) •
Andrea Camilleri (2002) •
Andrea Carraro , Antonio Franchini,
Giorgio Pressburger (2003) •
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Giorgio Montefoschi ,
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Kim Thúy (2011)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa:
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Special Award 40 Years of Mondello:
Gipi (2014)
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