Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa (; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is a resident in the United States.

She is 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" is released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citize Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa" . Provided by Wikipedia