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In-branch use onlyBapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa (; 11 August 1938 – 25 December 2024) was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.Sidhwa was best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel ''Ice Candy Man'' which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film ''Earth'' as well as the 2006 novel ''Water: A Novel'', on which Mehta's 2005 film ''Water'' is based''.'' A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" was released on the official YouTube channel of "The Citizens Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with the title "First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa". Provided by Wikipedia
