Rupa Bajwa

Rupa Bajwa
Born 1976
Language English

Rupa Bajwa (born 1976 in Amritsar, India) is an Indian writer who lives and works in Amritsar, Punjab.

In 2004, she published her first novel, The Sari Shop, which explores her hometown and the class dynamics of India.[1] The novel won the writer flattering reviews, with reviewers calling her India’s new literary find. The Sari Shop was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004. The novel won the XXIV Grinzane Cavour Prize for best first novel in June 2005, the Commonwealth Award in 2005 and India's Sahitya Akademi Award English 2006.

The Sari Shop has been translated in several languages, among them: French ( Le vendeur de saris), Dutch (De Sariwinkel) and Serbian (Prodavnica sarija).

Though she is from a Sikh family, Bajwa wrote a controversial piece called "Dark Things Do Happen in Gurdwaras Sometimes", in The Telegraph, an Indian newspaper.[2] This piece brought her criticism from the Sikh clergy.

Rupa Bajwa also writes book reviews and articles on other interests in The Telegraph, The Tribune and India Today. She is currently working on her second novel.[3]

References

  1. ^ Sood, Ashima. "THE EMIGRANT AND THE NATIVE: the Indias of Akhil Sharma and Rupa Bajwa". Another Subcontitent. http://www.anothersubcontinent.com/emigrantnative.html. Retrieved January 3, 2012. 
  2. ^ Bajwa, Rupa (February 6, 2005). ""Dark Things Do Happen in Gurdwaras Sometimes"". Sikh Times. http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_020605a.html. Retrieved January 3, 2012. 
  3. ^ Singh, Roopinder (May 22, 2004). "Write recipe". The Tribune. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040522/windows/main1.htm. Retrieved January 3, 2012.