Shauna Singh Baldwin

Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, was published by Knopf Publishers in 1999 and was subsequently awarded the 2000 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book. Born in Canada, Shauna Singh grew up in India. Her works are deeply imbued with her North American and Sikh heritage. Her stories bear witness to the lives of women in India and North America. Whether located in the closed circle of the family or a campus or an office, the multiplicity of intertwining cultural, gender and class identities are explored with subtlety and clear authority.