Balli Kaur Jaswal

Balli Kaur Jaswal is a Singaporean novelist, having family roots in Punjab. Her first novel ''Inheritance'' won the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelist Award in 2014, and was adapted for a film presented at the 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts. Her second novel ''Sugarbread'' was a finalist for the 2015 inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Her third novel, ''Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows'' was released in 2017, and garnered her a wider international following, driven in part by being picked as a selection for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine online book club. Movie rights for ''Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows'' have been sold to Scott Free Productions and Film4. In 2019, the Business Times described Jaswal as "the most internationally well-known Singapore novelist after ''Crazy Rich Asians''’ Kevin Kwan." Provided by Wikipedia