Shauna Singh Baldwin Event (3/26)
Fiction Reading, Discussion & Book Signing with Shauna Singh Baldwin
On Wednesday, March 26th at 5 pm in Port O' Call, Shauna Singh Baldwin, award-winning novelist and short-story writer will read from her latest short story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan. Born in Canada to Indian parents, Ms. Baldwin grew up in New Delhi, and has made Milwaukee her home for the past twenty years. Her fiction has topped best seller lists in Canada, India, and elsewhere, and has earned glowing reviews in the New York Times and the Washington Post as well as high praise abroad. Her first novel, What the Body Remembers, won the 2000 Commonweath Prize for Best Book in the Canadian-Caribbean region; it has since been translated into fourteen languages. Her collection, English Lessons and Other Stories, won the 1996 Friends of American Writers prize; and her second novel, The Tiger Claw, was short-listed for the 2004 Giller Prize and shared the short list for India's 2006 Hutch Crossword Award with works by V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie. The author's website: www.shaunasinghbaldwin.com
- Who: Shauna Singh Baldwin, award-winning novelist
- What: Book reading, discussion and signing
- When: 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 26
- Where: Port 'O Call, UW-La Crosse Cartwright Center
- Admission: Free
Sponsored by the UW-L English Department.
Contact: Matthew Cashion (cashion.matt@uwlax.edu).
