Biography of Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa ( brought into the world August 11, 1938) is a Pakistani author of Gujarati Parsi plunge who writes in English and is inhabitant in the United States. 

She is best known for her synergistic work with Indo-Canadian producer Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa composed both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which filled in as the reason for Mehta's 1998 film Earth and the 2006 novel Water: A Novel on which is based Mehta's 2005 film Water. 

Nationality: American (Pakistani outcast, emigrated to United States, 1984). Conceived: Bapsi Bhandara, Karachi, Pakistan, 1938. Training: Kinnaird College for Women, B.A. 1956. Vocation: Conducted epic composition workshops, Rice University, 1984-86; right hand teacher of experimental writing, University of Houston, 1985. President, International Women's Club of Lahore, 1975-77. Pakistan's representative to Asian Women's Congress, 1975. Specialist: Elizabeth Grossman, Sterling Lord Literary Agency Inc., 1 Madison Ave, New York, New York 10021, U.S.A. 

Books 

The Crow Eaters. Lahore, Pakistan, Imani Press, 1978; London, Cape, 1980; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1983. 

The Bride. New York, St. Martin's Press, and London, Cape, 1983. 

Ice-Candy-Man. London, Heinemann, 1988; as Cracking India, Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1991. 

An American Brat. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1993; London, Penguin, 1994.Bapsi Sidhwa (SIH-dwuh) developed English-dialect fiction in Pakistan. In contrast to India, from which Pakistan was cut, the nation had no settled scholarly convention in English. Urdu was the official dialect, and many would have favored that the previous colonizers' dialect vanish through and through. 

Her first novel, The Bride, was started by a story she heard amid a family excursion in Pakistan's innate locales in the Himalayas. A young lady had made an orchestrated marriage with an inborn man. Unfit to adapt to the unforgiving treatment agreed ladies in that society, she fled, just to be sought after, at that point killed by her significant other and his relatives. Sidhwa felt constrained to recount this story, which to her symbolized the predicament of numerous ladies on the subcontinent. 

Subsequent to getting endless dismissals for her first and second books, The Bride and The Crow Eaters, she chose to distribute The Crow Eaters in Pakistan secretly. Despite the fact that the experience was one she says, "I would not wish on anybody," it denotes the start of her artistic notoriety (Sidhwa "Meeting" 295). From that point forward, she has gotten various honors and privileged residencies for these initial two works and her two latest books, Cracking India and An American Brat. These incorporate the Pakistan National distinctions of the Patras Bokhri grant for The Bride in 1985 and the most astounding honor in expressions of the human experience, the Sitari-I-Imtiazin 1991. Her third novel, Cracking India was granted the German Literaturepreis and an assignment for Notable Book of the Year from the American Library Association, and was referenced as a New York Times "Striking Book of the Year," all in 1991. A Bunting Fellowship from Harvard and a National Endowment of the Arts give in 1986 and 1987 bolstered the fulfillment of Cracking India. She was granted a $100,000 allow as the beneficiary of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award in 1993. Her works have now been converted into Russian, French and German. She has additionally shown school level English courses at St. Thomas University, Rice University, Mt. Holyoke, and The University of Texas and also at the alumni level at Columbia University, NY. 

Commentators noticed that both her books 'An American Brat' and 'The Bride' inspected solid portrayal and social clash. Kamala Edward distinctly watched Sidhwa as a pragmatist and women's activist. One could clearly find in her theâ qualities of a lady. American Brat was lauded by different analysts as convincing depiction of both up and coming ages and the experience of settler in United States. Moreover, numerous pundits watched Bapsi's utilization of social and social generalizations in the entirety of her books explicitly in American Brat.