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Bapsi Sidhwa ((ウルドゥー語:باپسا سادہوا); born August 11, 1938) is a Pakistani〔 novelist who writes in English and is resident in America. 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'' which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film ''Water.'' ==Background== Sidhwa was born to Parsi Zoroastrian parents Peshotan and Tehmina Bhandara in Karachi and later moved with her family to Lahore. She was two when she contracted polio (which has affected her throughout her life) and nine in 1947 at the time of Partition (facts which would shape the character Lenny in her novel ''Ice Candy Man'' as well as the background for her novel).〔(Literary Encyclopedia: Bapsi Sidhwa )〕 She received her BA from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore in 1957.〔 She married at the age of 19〔 and moved to Bombay for five years before she divorced and remarried in Lahore with her present husband Noshir who is also Zoroastrian. She had three children in Pakistan before beginning her career as an author. One of her children is Mohur Sidhwa,〔(Worldly Lessons )〕 who is a candidate for state representative in Arizona.〔(Meet Our Candidates: Mohur Sidhwa for State Representative, LD 9 )〕 She currently resides in Houston, US. She describes herself as a "Punjabi-Parsi-Pakistani". In an online interview to her Pakistani friend, Sadia Rehman, in August 2012 she said, "Feroza is closest to me and my views" about the identity issues of Pakistani Parsi immigrants to the US, their life-styles and their culture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bapsi Sidhwa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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