Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh (born 1969) is a Canadian novelist and chemist [1] and poet.
Life and early career
[edit]He grew up in Punjab (India) and Indian-administered Kashmir and moved to Canada in 1990.[citation needed] He is a former research scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University.[citation needed] From August 2006 until June 2007, Singh was a resident in the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary.[citation needed] He served as the 2016–17 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta.[2]
Works
[edit]Singh is the author of the novel Chef (2008 Véhicule Press/2010 Bloomsbury),[3] and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. Both books deal with the damaged landscapes of Kashmir, especially Siachen Glacier. His play, Speak, Oppenheimer, written for Montreal's Infinite Theatre, involves three physicists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. He contributed an essay to the anthology AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (2008). His second novel, Helium, was published in 2013. It tells the story of a young chemistry student whose mentor was murdered in the course of the anti-Sikh riots in 1984.[4] His personal essay about 1984 in India was published in The New York Times as "Thomas Bernhard in New Delhi".[5] November, a collection of poems, appeared in 2017.[6] More and more his work engages with deep time and the ecological crisis.
Publications
[edit]Poetry collections
[edit]- Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock (NeWest Press, 2024)
- How to Hold a Pebble (NeWest Press, 2022)
- November (Bayeux Arts, 2017)
Memoir
[edit]- My Mother, My Translator (Véhicule Press, 2021)
Novels
[edit]- Chef (Bloomsbury, 2010)
- Helium (Bloomsbury, 2013)
- Face (Brindle & Glass, 2022)
Short stories
[edit]- Seventeen Tomatoes: tales from Kashmir (Véhicule Press, 2004)
References
[edit]- ^ Interview with the Author in which he speaks about Helium
- ^ "Previous Writers-in-Residence | Faculty of Arts". ualberta.ca. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ Irish Times Review of Jaspreet Singh's Chef, the novel set in Kashmir
- ^ The Globe and Mail on Jaspreet Singh's Helium
- ^ "Jaspreet Singh". india.blogs.nytimes.
- ^ "Poems – November". albertaviews.ca. June 2018.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Canadian poets
- Canadian male short story writers
- Canadian male novelists
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Indian poets
- Indian emigrants to Canada
- Indian male novelists
- McGill University Faculty of Engineering alumni
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Novelists from Alberta