As per our current Database, Bapsi Sidhwa is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Bapsi Sidhwa is 85 years, 8 months and 8 days old. Bapsi Sidhwa will celebrate 86rd birthday on a Sunday 11th of August 2024. Below we countdown to Bapsi Sidhwa upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Bapsi Sidhwa |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 85 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 11, 1938 (Pakistan) |
| Birthday | August 11 |
| Town/City | Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistan |
Bapsi Sidhwa’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Bapsi Sidhwa was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Famous for her novels Cracking India (1991) and Water (2006), she received her native country's most prestigious arts honor, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, as well as both the Premio Mondello and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award.
Many years after earning her bachelor's degree from the Kinnaird College for Women (in Lahore, Pakistan), she published her debut novel, The Crow Eaters (1978).
She contracted polio at the age of two.
Born into the Parsi Zoroastrian faith and religious community, she grew up in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan, as the daughter of Tehmina and Peshotan Bhandara. During her brief first marriage, she lived in Bombay, India. With her second husband, Noshir, and her three children, she later settled in the United States and taught at Columbia, Rice, Brandeis, and several other American universities.
Sidhwa's two most famous novels were adapted into feature films by the Indian Director Deepa Mehta.
