Occupation Author Movies Earth Role Novelist | Name Bapsi Sidhwa Nationality Pakistani/American Siblings Minocher Bhandara | |
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Spouse Noshir R. Sidhwa (m. 1963) Parents Peshotan, Tehmina Bhandara Books Cracking India, The crow eaters, An American Brat, Pakistani Bride, Water Similar People Deepa Mehta, Isphanyar M Bhandara, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna | ||
Part 4 the tamarind society hosted a conversation with bapsi sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa (Urdu: باپسا سادہوا; born August 11, 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Parsi descent who writes in English and is resident in the United States of America.
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- Part 4 the tamarind society hosted a conversation with bapsi sidhwa
- Part 3 the tamarind society hosted a conversation with bapsi sidhwa
- Background
- Teaching
- Awards
- Works
- References
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 is based Mehta's 2005 film Water.
Part 3 the tamarind society hosted a conversation with bapsi sidhwa
Background
Sidhwa was born to Parsi Zoroastrian parents Peshotan and Tehmina Bhandara in Karachi and later moved with her family to Lahore. She was two 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 Ice Candy Man as well as the background for her novel). She received her BA from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore in 1957.
She married at the age of 19 and moved to Bombay for five years before she divorced and remarried in Lahore with her present husband Noshir who is also Zoroastrian. She had three children in Pakistan before beginning her career as an author. One of her children is Mohur Sidhwa, who is a candidate for state representative in Arizona.
She currently resides in Houston, US. She describes herself as a "Punjabi-Parsi-Pakistani". Her mother tongue is Gujarati.
In an online interview to her Pakistani friend, Sadia Rehman, in August 2012 she said, "Feroza is closest to me and my views" about the identity issues of Pakistani Parsi immigrants to the US, their life-styles and their culture.
Teaching
She has previously taught at the University of Houston, Rice University, Columbia University, Mount Holyoke College, and Brandeis University.
Awards
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