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{{Infobox academic
|birth_date={{Birth-date|12 July 1931}}
|death_date={{Death-date|08 December 2019}} (aged 88)
|alma_mater=[[St. John's College, Agra]] (B.A.)<br>[[Agra College]] (M.A.)<br>[[University of Leeds]] (Ph.D.)
|doctoral_advisor=[[G. Wilson Knight]]
|workplaces=[[University of Regina]]
|occupation=Writer and professor
|birth_place=[[Secunderabad]], [[Hyderabad State]], [[British India]] (now in [[Telangana]], India)
|citizenship=Canada}}

'''Saros Dara Cowasjee''' (12 July 1931 - 08 Dec 2019) was an Indian-born Canadian novelist, short story writer, commentator, critic, anthologist, and screenwriter, as well as a professor emeritus at [[University of Regina]].

== Early life and education ==
Cowasjee was born in [[Secunderabad]], India on 12 July 1931, to Dara and Meher Cowasjee. He had a sister and a brother. He earned a B.A. from [[St. John's College, Agra]] in 1951. He completed a M.A. from [[Agra College]] in 1955. In 1960, Cowasjee completed a Ph.D. from [[University of Leeds]]. He researched [[Seán O'Casey]] under the supervision of [[G. Wilson Knight]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uregina.ca/library/assets/docs/pdf/finding_aids/2006_43.pdf|title=Saros Cowasjee|last=|first=|date=2007-02-16|website=University of Regina Archives and Special Collections: The Dr. John Archer Library|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><ref name="Vijayasree">{{cite book|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|url=https://archive.org/details/handbooktwentiet00nata|url-access=limited|last=Vijayasree|first=C.|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1996|isbn=9780313287787|editor-last1=Natarajan|editor-first1=Nalini|pages=[https://archive.org/details/handbooktwentiet00nata/page/n392 382]–397|chapter=Parsi Literature in English|editor-last2=Nelson|editor-first2=Emmanuel Sampath}}</ref>

== Career ==
Cowasjee was an editor for two years with the Times of India Press in Bombay (now renamed [[Mumbai]]). In 1963, he joined the faculty of the [[University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus]] as an instructor of English. In 1971, he became a full-time professor. Upon retirement in 1995, Cowasjee became professor emeritus.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Perspectives on the Novels of Rohinton Mistry|last=Dodiya|first=Jaydipsinh|date=2006|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=9788176257220|language=en}}</ref>

Cowasjee has said "…I am a Canadian citizen, though my I sell much better in the U.K. and India than I do in Canada…. Perhaps my work lacks Canadian content and sensibility. Also, to be noticed in Canada one has to be an aggressive salesman, as aggressive as a Jehovah's Witness, and as prepared to take insults and get the door shut in one's face."<ref name="Mathur">O. P. Mathur. ''The Modern Indian English Fiction''. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1993, p.204.</ref>

== Personal life ==
Cowasjee was [[Parsi]], a [[Zoroastrian]] community in India.<ref name="Vijayasree" /> He emigrated to Canada in 1963 and was a Canadian citizen.<ref name="King&Narayan">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English|last1=King|first1=Bruce|last2=Narayan|first2=Shyamala A.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9781134468485|editor-last=Benson|editor-first=Eugene|pages=275–276|chapter=Cowasjee, Saros (1931-)}}</ref><ref name="Hodgson">{{cite book|title=Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present|publisher=University of Regina Press|year=2004|isbn=9780889771635|editor-last=Hodgson|editor-first=Heather|pages=61–63}}</ref> Cowasjee resided in [[Regina, Saskatchewan]].<ref name="Hodgson" />

==Selected works==

===As author===
*''Sean O'Casey, the Man Behind the Plays'' (1963);<ref name=Hodgson/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Johnston |first=Denis |year=1965 |title=Sean O'Casey, the Man Behind the Plays by Saros Cowasjee (review) |journal=Modern Drama |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=344–345 |doi=10.1353/mdr.1965.0046}}</ref>
*''O'Casey'' (1966);<ref name=Hodgson/>
*''Stories and Sketches'' (1970);<ref name=Vijayasree/><ref name=Mathur/><ref name=Hodgson/>
*''Goodbye to Elsa'' (1974);<ref name=Vijayasree/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Murad |first=Orlene |year=1974 |title=Saros Cowasjee: Goodbye to Elsa |journal=International Fiction Review |pages=151–152 |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/IFR/article/download/13076/14159}}</ref>
*''Mulk Raj Anand: Coolie : an assessment'' (1976);<ref name=Hodgson/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Fisher |first=Marlene |year=2008 |title=Saros Cowasjee. Mulk Raj Anand. Coolie. An assessment. |journal=World Literature Written in English |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=378–379 |doi=10.1080/17449857708588480}}</ref>
*''Nude therapy'' (1978);<ref name=Vijayasree/><ref name=Mathur/><ref name=Hodgson/>
*''So Many Freedoms: A Study of the Major Fiction of Mulk-Raj Anand'' (1978);<ref name=Hodgson/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Williams |first= Haydn M. |year=1980 |title=So Many Freedoms: Major Fiction of Mulk Raj Anand. By Saros Cowasjee. |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=411–412 |doi=10.2307/2054338}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=S.M.A. |year=1978 |title=Reviewed Work: So Many Freedoms. A Study of the Major Fiction of Mulk Raj Anand by Saros Cowasjee |journal=Indian Literature |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=127–129 |jstor=24158562}}</ref>
*''The last of the maharajas: A screen play based on Mulk Raj Anand's Private life of an Indian Prince'' (1980);<ref name=Mathur/><ref name=Hodgson/>
*''Suffer little children'' (1982);<ref name=Vijayasree/><ref name=Hodgson/>
*''Studies in Indian and Anglo-Indian Fiction'' (1993);<ref name=Hodgson/>
*''The Assistant Professor'' (1996).<ref name=Hodgson/>

===As editor===
*''Author to Critic: The Letters of Mulk Raj Anand to Saros Cowasjee'' (1973);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''Modern Indian Short Stories'' (1982);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''Stories from the Raj'' (1983);<ref name=Hodgson/>
*''More Stories from the Raj and After'' (1986);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''Indigo'' by [[Christine Weston]] (1987, 1993);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''The Wild Sweet Witch'' by [[Philip Mason]] (1989);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''Women Writers of the Raj: Short Fiction'' (1990);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''Four Raj Novels'' (Omnibus) (1994);<ref name=Hodgson/>
*''Orphans of the Storm: Stories on the Partition of India'' (1995);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''The Best Short Stories of Flora Annie Steel'' by [[Flora Annie Steel]] (1995);<ref name=King&Narayan/>
*''The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories'' (1999).<ref name=Hodgson/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Gerow |first=Edwin |year=2001 |title=Reviewed Work: ''The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories''. Edited by Saros Cowasjee. |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=121 |issue=1 |page=165 |jstor=606779}} (JSTOR misreports the title because this is the second review on the same page)</ref>

===Introductions===
*''Private Life of an Indian Prince'' by [[Mulk Raj Anand]] (1970);<ref>{{cite journal |last=Nare |first=M. A. |year=2013 |title=A Closer Look at Mulk Raj Anand's Novel: ''Private Life of an Indian Prince'' and its Criticism |journal=Rock Pebbles |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=81–87 |url=http://www.rockpebblesindia.com/pdf/jan-mar2013.pdf#page=81}}</ref>
*''The Trilogy'' comprising ''The Village'', ''Across the Black Waters'' and ''The Sword and the Sickle'' by Mulk Raj Anand (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kaur |first=Rajender |year=2018 |title=Mulk Raj Anand. The Trilogy comprising The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle |journal=South Asian Review |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=162–165 |doi=10.1080/02759527.2016.11978328}}</ref>

==References==
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