Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962) is a

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novelist.

Early life and education

Baldwin was born in

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, Canada into a Punjabi family. She holds an MBA from

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and an MFA from the

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Career

Shauna Singh Baldwin's 1999 novel ''What the Body Remembers'' won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian/

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Region). It has been translated into fifteen languages. A 20th anniversary edition was released in 2020 by Tara Press. Her 2004 novel ''The Tiger Claw'' was nominated for the

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She is the author of ''English Lessons and other Stories'' (1996). This collection of stories about Indian women received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Prize. The story ''Jassie'' from this collection won The Writer's Union of Canada Short Fiction prize. A second collection of cross-cultural fiction ''We Are Not in Pakistan'' was published in 2007. Her third novel "The Selector of Souls" (2012) received the Council for Wisconsin Writers Fiction Prize. ''Reluctant Rebellions: New and Selected Non-fiction'' was published in 2016 by the South Asian Studies Institute at the

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. Baldwin's play ''We are So Different Now'' premiered in Canada in 2016, staged by Sawitri Productions.

Awards and honours

Baldwin is the recipient of the 2018 South Asian Literature Association Distinguished Writer Prize. She has been a juror for Canada's Governor General’s Prize (2008) and the Giller Prize (2014).

Personal life

She currently lives in

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. Baldwin and her husband David Baldwin are former owners of the Safe House, an espionage-themed restaurant in

Selected works

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

External links

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at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin, Shauna Singh 1962 births Living people Canadian writers of Asian descent Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian people of Punjabi descent Canadian Sikhs Canadian emigrants to the United States American people of Indian descent American people of Punjabi descent American Sikhs Canadian women novelists American women writers of Indian descent Writers from Milwaukee 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers American women novelists Novelists from Wisconsin American novelists of Indian descent 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Novelists from Montreal