Rupinder Gill

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Rupinder Gill is a Canadian writer. She is a former television publicist for Alliance Atlantis and BBC Canada.

Her first book, On the Outside Looking Indian is a humorous memoir about her childhood as the child of Indian immigrants in a small Canadian town.^[1]^[2] It was shortlisted for the 2012 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour^[3]

Her book garnered attention before its release because the popular website Reddit featured the book's spoof back cover recommendation from Oprah Winfrey. ^[4] Gill has written for Canadian comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, the National Post and websites such as McSweeney's.

External links

Rupinder Gill at the Internet Movie Database

References

↑ "Indo-Canadian memoir too funny to read all at once". Winnipeg Free Press, March 26, 2011.
↑ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/family/rupinder-gill-grew-up-on-the-outside-looking-indian/article1955538/ "Rupinder Gill grew up ‘on the outside looking Indian’". The Globe and Mail, March 24, 2011.
↑ "4 women on short list for Stephen Leacock Medal". "CBC News", Apr 2, 2012
↑ http://www.evilreads.com/blog/2011/3/17/author-uses-oprah-blurb-for-tale-of-two-citieson-her-own-boo.html

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