Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962) is a
Canadian-
American
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novelist of Indian descent.
Career
Baldwin was born in
Montreal,
Quebec. She holds an MBA from
Marquette University and an MFA from the
University of British Columbia.
Her 2000 novel ''What the Body Remembers'' won the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian/
Caribbean
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Region), and her 2004 novel ''The Tiger Claw'' was nominated for the
Giller Prize. Her second short-story collection, ''We Are Not in Pakistan'', was released in Canada in 2007.
She currently lives in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baldwin and her husband David Baldwin are former owners of the
Safe House,
an espionage-themed restaurant in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Books
* ''A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America'' (1992, coauthored)
* ''English Lessons and Other Stories'' (1996, short stories)
* ''What the Body Remembers: a novel'' (2000)
* ''The Tiger Claw: a novel'' (2004)
* ''We Are Not in Pakistan: stories'' (2007)
* ''The Selector of Souls: a novel'' (2012)
* ''Reluctant Rebellions: New and Selected Non-Fiction'' (2016)
Plays
* ''We Are So Different Now'' (2009) Staged in Toronto in 2016 by Sawitri Theatre Group.
References www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com
External links
*
Shauna Singh Baldwin'sentry in
The Canadian Encyclopedia