Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa (b. 1938) was born in Karachi, Pakistan (then part of India), but her family migrated shortly thereafter to Lahore. She is an author best known for her work Ice-Candy-Man (1988; later published as Cracking India, 1991). This novel is set in 1947, the year that India and Pakistan became two separate nations. The book was later adapted as the 1998 film Earth.

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1938 - India - Pakistan - Earth

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Sidhwa has taught at the University of Houston, Rice University, Columbia University, Mount Holyoke College, and Brandeis University.

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University of Houston - Rice University - Columbia University - Mount Holyoke College - Brandeis University

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