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Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani-American novelist, of Gujarati Parsi descent, written in English and residing in the United States. She is known for her collaboration with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man, which was the background for Mehta's 1998 film Earth, as well as the 2006 novel Water: A novel based on Mehta's 2005 film Water. A documentary on the life of Sidhwa titled "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" is currently in production and should be released in 2021
BornAugust 11, 1936, Karachi, British India (now in Pakistan)
OccupationAuthor
NationalityPakistani, American
Notable awardsSitara-i-Imtiaz (1991)
RelativesMinocher Bhandara (brother), Isphanyar M. Bhandara (nephew)

About Bapsi Sidhwa

Novelist Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Pakistan on August 11, 1938. She's 85 years old today.

She received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest arts accolade, as well as the Premio Mondello and the Lila Wallace-Digest Reader's Writers' Award, for her novels Cracking India (1991) and Water (2006).

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Bapsi Sidhwa before becoming famous

Bapsi Sidhwa was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1938 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger (兎).

She wrote her first novel, The Crow Eaters, many years after receiving her bachelor's degree from Kinnaird College for Women (in Lahore, Pakistan) (1978).

Achievement of Bapsi Sidhwa

She was diagnosed with polio when she was two years old.

Bapsi Sidhwa's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

As the daughter of Tehmina and Peshotan Bhandara, she was raised in the Parsi Zoroastrian faith and religious community in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan. She lived in Bombay, India, during her first marriage. She eventually settled in the United States with her second husband, Noshir, and their three children, teaching at Columbia, Rice, Brandeis, and other American colleges.

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Bapsi Sidhwa Collabed with

Director Deepa Mehta, an Indian filmmaker, transformed two of Sidhwa's most famous novels into feature films.

Bapsi Sidhwa Income & Net worth

Bapsi Sidhwa's income mainly comes from the work that created her reputation: a novelist. Information about her net worth in 2024 is being updated as soon as possible by allfamous.org, you can contact to tell us Net Worth of the Bapsi Sidhwa.

Bapsi Sidhwa Height and Weight

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Latest information about Bapsi Sidhwa updated on March 08 2023.