Novelist Bapsi Sidhwa
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Bapsi Sidhwa
Living place: Pakistan
Birthday: 11-8-1938 (86 years old)
Global rank: #97848
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Who is Novelist Bapsi Sidhwa?
Best known for her novels Cracking India (1991) and Water (2006), she received her hometown honors most prestigious arts, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, as well as both the Premio Mondello Award and Lila Wallace-Reader's Writer's Digest.
She contracted polio at the age of two.
Best known for her novels Cracking India (1991) and Water (2006), she received her hometown honors most prestigious arts, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, as well as both the Premio Mondello Award and Lila Wallace-Reader's Writer's Digest.
She contracted polio at the age of two.
Years after earning her bachelor's degree from Kinnaird College for Women (in Lahore, Pakistan), she published her first novel, The Crow Eaters (1978).
Born into the Zoroastrian Parsi faith and religious community, she grew up in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan, the daughter of Tehmina and Peshotan Bhandara. During her brief first marriage, she lived in Bombay, India. With her second husband, Noshir, and her three children, she later settled in the United States and taught at Columbia, Rice, Brandeis, and several other American universities.
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Sidhwa's two most popular novels have been adapted into feature films by Indian director Deepa Mehta.
Sidhwa's two most popular novels have been adapted into feature films by Indian director Deepa Mehta.
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When was Novelist Bapsi Sidhwa born?
Bapsi Sidhwa birthday 11-8-1938 (at the age of 86).
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Bapsi Sidhwa was born in . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Bapsi Sidhwa's global rank is 97848 and whose rank is 1328 in list of famous Novelist.
Bapsi Sidhwa birthday 11-8-1938 (at the age of 86).
Where is Novelist Bapsi Sidhwa's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Bapsi Sidhwa was born in . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Bapsi Sidhwa's global rank is 97848 and whose rank is 1328 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1938 and 11-8
Events in the world in the birth year of Bapsi Sidhwa
- Hitler marches into Austria; political and geographical union of Germany and Austria proclaimed.
- Munich Pact—Britain, France, and Italy agree to let Germany partition Czechoslovakia.
- Nazis destroy Jewish shops, homes, synagogues in Kristallnacht riots; 20,000-30,000 sent to concentration camps.
- First oil strike in Kuwait transforms the emirate's economy.
Birthday Bapsi Sidhwa (11-8) in history
- Day 11-8 year 1909: Arapahoe became the first American ship to use the S.O.S. distress signal.
- Day 11-8 year 1934: The first inmates arrived at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
- Day 11-8 year 1952: King Hussein of Jordan ascended the throne after his father had been declared mentally unfit.
- Day 11-8 year 1954: More than seven years of fighting in Indochina formerly ended with the cessation of French control.
- Day 11-8 year 1956: Abstract artist Jackson Pollock died in an automobile accident.
- Day 11-8 year 1960: Chad gained its independence from France.
- Day 11-8 year 1965: Following the arrest of a young black motorist, the predominately black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in riots that lasted six days and left 34 dead.
- Day 11-8 year 2003: Charles Taylor, president of Liberia, formally relinquished his office to Moses Blah and left for Nigeria.
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