SOURCE: SCROLL

Bapsi Sidhwa, one of Pakistan’s most acclaimed English-language novelists, died in Houston, Texas in the United States on Wednesday, Dawn reported. She was 86 years old.

Sidhwa was born in 1938 in Karachi to a Gujarati Parsi family. She grew up in Lahore, where she witnessed firsthand the impact of the Partition in 1947, an experience that shaped her writing.

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