Biography

Bapsi Sidhwa (Urdu: بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent 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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Earth (1998)

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1938-08-11 (85 years old)

Birth Place
Karachi, Pakistan

Citizenships
British Raj, Pakistan, United States of America

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Bapsi Sidhwa
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