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Bapsi Sidhwa بیپسی سدھوا | |
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 Sidhwa in 2008 | |
| Born | 11 August 1938 Karachi, Sind Province, British India |
| Died | 25 December 2024 (aged 86) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Pakistani[1] |
| Notable awards | Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award by the Government of Pakistan (1991) |
| Children | 5 |
| Relatives | Minocher Bhandara (brother) Isphanyar M. Bhandara (nephew) |
Bapsi Sidhwa (Urdu: بیپسی سدھوا; 11 August 1938 – 25 December 2024) was a Pakistani[1] novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.
Sidhwa was 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".[2][3][4]
- ^ a b Bio of Bapsi Sidhwa. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
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- ^ Shashi Tharoor (6 October 1991). "Life With Electric-aunt and Slavesister (A review of Bapsi Sidhwa's book)". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 November 2021.