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Chronicler of a community

Winning the $50,000 DSC Prize in 2014 for the Chronicle Of A Corpse Bearer changed certain things for Cyrus Mistry. For one, the writer says, he isn’t as far from the madding crowd as he’d like to be. And he’s one of those writers to whom awards mean a great deal.

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Past in Perspective

Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Karachi in 1938 to Parsi parents and moved to Lahore soon after. She witnessed the bloody partition of India and has been a prolific writer. Sidhwa has won many awards for her writings, which include Sitara-e-Imtiaz, which she was awarded in 1991. She currently resides in Houston, US. She describes herself as a “Punjabi-Parsi-Pakistani”.

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