Shauna Singh Baldwin
Encyclopedia
Shauna Singh Baldwin is a Canadian
-American
novelist of India
n descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
(Canadian/Caribbean
Region), and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
. Her second short-story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan, was released in Canada in 2007.
Baldwin and her husband own the Safe House, an espionage themed restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
-American
United States
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novelist of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
(Canadian/Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
Region), and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
. Her second short-story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan, was released in Canada in 2007.
Baldwin and her husband own the Safe House, an espionage themed restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Books
- A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America (1992, coauthored)
- English Lessons and Other Stories (1996, short stories)
- What the Body Remembers (2000)
- The Tiger Claw (2004)
- We Are Not in Pakistan" (2007)