Balli Kaur Jaswal

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Title

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Contributor Item Type Metadata

First Name

Balli

Surname or Business Name

Kaur Jaswal

Years Affiliated

2020

Birthplace

Singapore

Occupation

Writer

Biographical Text

Balli Kaur Jaswal (Singapore) is the author of four novels, including Singapore Literature Prize finalist Sugarbread, and the bestselling Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, which was a selection of Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Her debut novel Inheritance won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist award. A former writing fellow at the University of East Anglia, she teaches creative writing at Yale-NUS College. Jaswal’s non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan.com, Harper’s Bazaar India and Salon.com, among other publications. Her latest novel The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters was released internationally in 2019.