Jaspreet Singh
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Jaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer.
He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. He is the author of Chef, a novel, and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. His play, Speak, Oppenheimer, written for Montreal's Infinite Theatre, involves three physicists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer.
From August 2006 until June 2007, Singh was a resident in the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program [1] at the University of Calgary.
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- Singh's biography at the Quebec Writers' Federation
- Canadian Literature review of Seventeen Tomatoes
- Stephen Hunt. "Novelist Jaspreet Singh brings touch of Kashmir to writer-in-residence program." Calgary Herald. 20 August 2006
- Singh reading at the Ottawa Writers Festival