The Modern Novel

Biography

Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Karachi and grew up in Lahore. She is a Parsi. She began writing after the birth of her three children and after visiting an isolated mountainous region of India and learning of the tragedy of a runaway bride. She had to publish her first novel herself as there was virtually no opportunity for publishing in English in Pakistan at that time. Since then she has become an acclaimed author and has taught in the United States. She now lives in Houston, Texas.

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Bapsi Sidhwa
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Sense of the City: Lahore (article by Sidhwa)