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BAPSI SIDHWA Distinguished international writer Bapsi Sidhwa has published five novels: An American Brat, Cracking India, The Bride and The Crow Eaters, Water; a children’s book for Pratham, Mouse With Seven Tails and the Lahore anthology: City of Sin and Splendour: she has been translated into several European and Asian languages. Among her many honors Sidhwa received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany. Sidhwa, who was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development has taught at Columbia U, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, and Brandeis. Cracking India (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Quality Paperback Book Club selection), was made into the film Earth by Canadian director Deepa Mehta. Sidhwa’s play, American Brat, played in London in 2003. It will
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Copyrights Pratham Books, 2005
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