Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa was born on 11 August 1938 in Karachi, into a Parsi family, and grew up in Lahore, where as a child she lived through the partition of 1947. She published her first novel herself in 1978, then other books on Lahore and on the partition; she worked with the filmmaker Deepa Mehta, one of whose films was based on one of her novels and another of whose films inspired a novel by her. Settled in Houston, in the United States, she died there in December 2024.

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• NovelThe Crow EatersBapsi Sidhwa · 1978Literature