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  SEE Magazine: September 23, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Singh Baldwin began an extensive investigation that took her to Khan’s jail cell, her London address, and along the route Khan travelled into Paris during the Occupation.
Singh Baldwin took a six-week hiatus to distribute information pamphlets on behalf of Sikh cab drivers whose turbans were being confused with Osama bin Laden’s desert garb.
Without intending to do so, she has written a commentary on our times; Singh Baldwin is candid when she laments that the issues most deserving of discussion at this time are those least likely to receive it.
www.seemagazine.com /Issues/2004/0923/print.htm   (653 words)

  
 internationales literaturfestival berlin
Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in 1962 in Montreal, Canada.
The volume, which was awarded the Friends of American Writers Award, introduces the reader to Baldwin’s central theme: an interrogative approach to humanist questions in a culturally hybrid environment of varied generations, nations, religions, ideologies, and interpretations of history.
Shauna Singh Baldwin’s most recent work, »The Tiger Claw« (2004), was nominated for Canada’s Giller Prize.
www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_728.html   (469 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: What the Body Remembers: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Baldwin develops her characters' personalities and interactions against the backdrop of changing Anglo-Indian relations; sometimes the political bleeds into the personal, as the novel juxtaposes India's struggle for independence with the smaller outrages and betrayals Satya and Roop suffer at their husband's hands--and each other's.
Shauna Singh Baldwin writes the heart and soul of women who are restricted by their society simply because they were not born male.
Singh Baldwin is fair, though, because the men in her novel are also bound by certain restrictive traditions,though certainly not as harsh as their women.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676973183   (1494 words)

  
 Shauna Singh Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montreal and grew up in India.
Shauna received a WI Arts Board Fellowship in 2003.
She completed residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Ragdale Foundation in 2002.
www.writersunion.ca /b/baldwn_s.htm   (277 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Tiger Claw: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shauna Singh Baldwin’s novel, The Tiger Claw, a nominee for the 2004 Giller Prize, is a fictionalized account of the life of Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian Muslim, who worked as a spy for the Allies’ Special Operations Executive during World War II, and who was eventually captured and imprisoned by the Germans.
In this sense, Singh Baldwin’s vision in the novel is an optimistic one, since it is located in the notion that the struggle for love and freedom is an essentially noble and heroic endeavour, which we abandon at the cost of losing our humanity.
Singh Baldwin includes in the novel a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Noor scratched into the wall of her cell the words, ‘I resist, therefore I am.’ Noor was unable to escape the dizzying, headlong rush of history but, to her dying breath, she refused to capitulate to it.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676976212   (1442 words)

  
 FFWD Weekly - December 9, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, was a promising debut.
Baldwin tells things to her readers as if they must have no idea what she’s talking about.
Baldwin is a talented writer, and I hope next time she just writes like herself.
www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/1209/book4.htm   (384 words)

  
 Quill & Quire
When Shauna Singh Baldwin was born, her mother received telegrams, and they all said pretty much the same thing: poor thing, you had a girl.
Singh Baldwin completed secondary school in India, but moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she still lives, to complete her MBA.
Singh Baldwin will not talk about her new projects, except to say that she is going “deeper.” She’s inviting back that house guest, the difficult one that demands care and feeding and tears.
www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=1542   (1554 words)

  
 Books
Award-winning author Shauna Singh Baldwin credits her mother with insisting, even as a little girl, she read “nothing that will waste your time; there are too many good books.” Hair and makeup: Connie Schwulst from Erik of Norway: Pure Talents.
While Baldwin says polygamy is now banned in India and Pakistan (except for Muslims) in her novel, which spans the years 1937 to 1947, the practice was legal.
Shauna is actively involved with David in their new Milwaukee Press Club Newsroom Pub and Grille on Wells Street.
www.gmtoday.com /features/books/books16.asp   (853 words)

  
 Hour.ca - Books - The Tiger Claw
Noor Khan was a terrorist in the eyes of the Nazis and a heroic symbol of French resistance; her story is a 21st century allegory that speaks to the root causes of our own divisive times.
Shauna Singh Baldwin does a fine job of breathing imaginary life into the historical fiction.
Singh Baldwin may not be the first to tell the story of French Resistance spy Noor Inayat Khan but she does a great job none the less.
www.hour.ca /books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=4776   (840 words)

  
 SAWNET: Bookshelf: Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna's awards include India's international Nehru Award (gold medal) for public speaking, and the national Shastri Award, a silver medal for English prose.
She is the recipient of the 1995 Writer's Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award.
Goose Lane Editions, publishers of Shauna's first book is enjoying the attention drawn to them by the success of What the Body Remembers.
www.sawnet.org /books/authors.php?Baldwin+Shauna+Singh   (861 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Tiger Claw: Books: Shauna Singh Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shauna Singh Baldwin has an astonishing ability to paint a very large canvas with amazing detail.
The story immediately intrigued Baldwin, inspiring her to travel to Europe, seek out the places where Noor lived, interview the people who knew her and discover more about the enigmatic woman.
The Giller Prize finalist The Tiger Claw — Baldwin’s follow-up novel to her award-winning What The Body Remembers — was born from the silences, conflicting stories and significant gaps she discovered along the way.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0676976212?v=glance   (1750 words)

  
 Bold Type: Shauna Singh Baldwin
The story is told from the womens' points of view, and uses the native language, customs, and multi-layerd history of colonization to great effect, drawing its readers into a world that is both exotic and strikingly familiar.
Shauna Singh Baldwin's storytelling is deeply imbued with Sikh culture, but the themes of her story--of colonization and disempowerment and the strength that can arise within those confines--are universal.
Here she writes about the struggle she faced to write a book the specific likes of which had never been written, how she had to uncover unwritten history and present a series of entirely new points of view.
www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1199/baldwin   (245 words)

  
 What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
To Pakistani historians, Jinnah is not the obstinate man who unleashed violence, but a saint who was forced to make a terrible choice between the 40 million Muslims left in India and the 90 million whom he could make a homeland for in Pakistan.
Baldwin makes the two women and their family her main focus, rather than the history of events leading to partition and independence.
A tale of fathers estranged from daughters, mothers from sons, husbands from wives, becomes a metaphor for history, without having to refer to that history directly.
www.sawf.org /newedit/edit03182002/bookreview.asp   (1224 words)

  
 Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin first heard of the mysterious story of Noor Inayat Khan (codename Madeleine) at The Safe House, an espionage-themed restaurant in Milwaukee.
A former Dutch spy told her of the brave and beautiful Indo-American woman who left her family in London, England to become a spy in Nazi-occupied France...
She is a second wife, married without a dowry in the hope that she will bear children, because Sardarji’s first wife, Satya...
www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=1265   (261 words)

  
 Shauna Singh Baldwin
The author of English Lessons and Other Stories and coauthor of A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America, her short stories have won numerous prestigious literary awards in the US, Canada and India.
The Tiger Claw: "Baldwin’s luminous prose captures the reader’s attention.
What the Body Remembers: "When history does enter the novel, Baldwin introduces it expertly… This is a novel whose many themes and characters have been orchestrated, for the most part, with great confidence and without sacrificing complexity.
www.randomhouse.ca /newface/singhbaldwin.php   (463 words)

  
 Indiaclub.com: What the Body Remembers : Fiction
Beautifully written and profoundly shocking, Shauna Singh Baldwin's debut novel is at once poetic, political, feminist and sensual.
Deeply imbued with the languages, customs and layered history of colonial India, What the Body Remembers is a triumph of language and storytelling, reclaiming a strikingly intimate and vivid sense of the large and colorful canvas of India and Pakistan.
It is very much Satya's story as she is forced to adopt ever more desperate measures to maintain her place in society and her husband's heart.
www.indiaclub.com /shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=2518   (654 words)

  
 Shauna Singh Baldwin- Vancouver International Writers Festival
Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been translated into 11 languages.
For four years she was an independent radio producer.
Baldwin was recently nominated for a Giller Prize for her new novel, The Tiger Claw.
www.writersfest.bc.ca /2004festival/author.php?author=2   (69 words)

  
 Straight.com Vancouver | Book Choice of the Week | Shauna Singh Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shauna Singh Baldwin, whose What the Body Remembers (1999) won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award (Canada-Caribbean), has been travelling in India to research a new novel.
There’s no word if it or the set of stories coming out next fall will feature in a free reading Baldwin is giving at UBC’s Green College next Friday (July 7) at 8 p.m., but as a student of the university’s optional-residency MFA program, she’ll unlikely be shy about presenting it publicly.
Meanwhile, a pride of poets takes over the Western Front from Wednesday to next Saturday (July 5 to 8), with Daphne Marlatt, Bill New, and Shane Koyczan kicking off the West Coast Poetry Festival.
www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=18681   (122 words)

  
 Ryerson Library - Asian Heritage in Canada - Authors - Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montreal in 1962 and raised in India.
She is a website designer who has also worked as an independent radio producer.
Baldwin page on the Writer's Union of Canada website
www.ryerson.ca /library/events/asian_heritage/baldwin.html   (317 words)

  
 Paritosh Uttam: Indian Writing in English: Shauna Singh Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Both her novels have a setting in the past: The Tiger Claw in World War II, and What the Body Remembers in Indian Independence and the Partition.
Shauna Singh Baldwin won the 2000 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book in the Canada/Caribbean region.
www.paritoshuttam.com /indian-writers/shauna-singh-baldwin.html   (116 words)

  
 Shauna Singh Baldwin Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Shauna Singh Baldwin Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
A situation that she assumed would be her salvation, however, quickly turns ominous, as both wives vie for the affections of their man, control over their children, and survival in a complicated household.
Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Shauna_Singh_Baldwin   (238 words)

  
 Amardeep Singh: Shauna Singh Baldwin's Latest
I had a chance to buy Shauna Singh Baldwin's The Tiger Claw a couple of months ago, when I was in Vancouver, but I flaked.
You may remember that I've talked about one of Baldwin's earlier novels before.
Amardeep Singh, Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University amardeepsingh.com
www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/01/shauna-singh-baldwins-latest.html   (142 words)

  
 Guess the Giller
(Including Shauna Singh Baldwin's The Tiger Claw, Wayson Choy's All That Matters, Pauline Holdstock's Beyond Measure, Alice Munro's Runaway, Paul Quarrington's Galveston, and Miriam Toews' A Complicated Kindness.)
In its portrayal of intolerance, The Tiger Claw eerily mirrors our own times, and progresses with moments of great beauty and white-knuckle tension towards an unforgettable denouement.
Her first novel, What the Body Remembers, was long-listed for Britain's Orange Prize and won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award in the Caribbean and Canada region.
www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca /MDC/guessgiller.html   (1754 words)

  
 Amazon.com: English Lessons and Other Stories: Books: Shauna Singh Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Buy this book with What the Body Remembers: A Novel by Shauna Singh Baldwin today!
In fact, I asked my friends not to give me another book until it matched Singh Baldwin's quality.
The narrative and characters remain with me two years later.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0864922736?v=glance   (723 words)

  
 Books at Book Clubs | The Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin once said in an interview, “Fiction is telling a lie in order to tell the truth,” and in The Tiger Claw she has told the story of Noor Khan using more than just the known facts.
What can we learn from fiction that can’t be learned from non-fiction?
Copyright © 2005 Random House of Canada Limited.
www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676976212&view=rg   (513 words)

  
 Consumer written product reviews on S - T - Shauna Singh Baldwin - MouthShut.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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English Lessons and Other Stories - Shauna Singh Baldwin
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 IndiaStar book review: Shauna Singh Baldwin's "English Lessons and Other Stories"
IndiaStar book review: Shauna Singh Baldwin's "English Lessons and Other Stories"
Amir Singh's wife who while making chapattis is pondering her son's departure
Her bewilderment at these goings-on is neatly captured in the idiom
www.indiastar.com /monika.htm   (942 words)

  
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 36. The Cultural Divide - Vancouver International Writers Festival
A stranger in a strange land is an often-felt response for people who have torn up their roots to come to another country.
Shauna Singh Baldwin, born in Montreal but raised in India; Anosh Irani, recently arrived in Canada from India; and Tessa McWatt, born in Guyana, raised in Canada and now living part-time in England, talk about the influence on their writing of being foreign.
Does writing help with the process of integration?
www.writersfest.bc.ca /2004festival/events.php?event=37   (119 words)

  
 The Tiger Claw ONLY CDN$ 23.07   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 The Official Web Site for Shauna Singh Baldwin
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The Official Web Site for Shauna Singh Baldwin
Vancouver, BC Canada: Shauna will be reading from
www.shaunasinghbaldwin.com   (129 words)

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