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Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) |
| Nationality | Canadian-American |
| Alma mater | Marquette University, University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Writer |
Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962) is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent.
Career[edit]
Baldwin was born in Montreal, Quebec. She holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia.
Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian/Caribbean Region), and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. Her second short-story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan, was released in Canada in 2007.
She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baldwin and her husband David Baldwin are former owners of the Safe House,[1] an espionage-themed restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Books[edit]
- 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[edit]
- We Are So Different Now (2009) Staged in Toronto in 2016 by Sawitri Theatre Group.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Shauna Singh Baldwin's official website
- Shauna Singh Baldwin's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Shauna Singh Baldwin at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2005
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