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 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 to international acclaim in 2017. Movie rights for Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows have been sold to Scott Free Productions and Film4.
Balli was born in Singapore and grew up living in countries such as Japan, Russia, the Philippines, Australia and the US.

Novels