Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan on August 11th, 1938 and is the Novelist. At the age of 85, Bapsi Sidhwa biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bapsi Sidhwa (born August 11, 1938) is an American-Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi descent who writes in English and resides in the United States. She is best known for her collaboration with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa contributed to Mehta's 1998 film Ice Candy Man as well as the 2006 book Water: A Novel, which is based on Mehta's 2005 film Water.
"Bapsi: Silences of My Life," a Sidhwa film, is currently in production, and it is expected to be released in 2021.
Awards
- Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard (1986)
- Visiting Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy, (1991)
- Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award, (1991, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts)
- Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award (1994)
- Mondello Prize (Premio Mondello for Foreign Authors) for Water (2007)
- Inducted in the Zoroastrian Hall of Fame (2000)