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Bapsi Sidhwa
Exploring Partition through the novel Ice-Candy-Man, also known as Cracking India.
The Bride · Ice-Candy-Man
- Born
- 11 August 1938
- Birthplace
- Karachi, present-day Pakistan
- Died
- 25 December 2024
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Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani-American novelist who wrote in English about community, migration and women’s lives.
Early life
Lahore childhood
Grew up in a Parsi family after her parents moved from Karachi.
Polio and Partition
Childhood polio and witnessing Partition later shaped her fiction.
Career
- 1978
First publication
Published The Crow Eaters in Pakistan.
- 1986
American fellowship
Received a Bunting fellowship at Radcliffe.
- 1990s
Teaching and writing
Taught creative writing at American universities while continuing her novels.
- 2006
Later writing
Published Water, a novel based on Deepa Mehta’s film, and edited a collection about Lahore.
Selected work
The Bride
Examined coercion and a woman’s struggle for survival.
Ice-Candy-Man
Viewed communal violence through a child’s perspective.
An American Brat
Followed a young Pakistani woman’s move to the United States.
Beyond work
Languages
Spoke Gujarati and Urdu as well as writing in English.
Women’s development
Served on an advisory committee on women’s issues for Benazir Bhutto.
Sources & photo credit
Wikipedia biography and references ↗Further biography and career ↗Photo: Larry D. Moore. CC BY 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
