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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Shilpi Somaya Gowda is the award-winning, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter, The Golden Son, and The Shape of Family. She was born in 1970 and raised in Toronto, Canada.
- In college, she spent a summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage, which seeded the idea for her first novel, Secret Daughter, published in 2010.
- It was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller, and was translated into over 30 languages.
- Secret Daughter was shortlisted for the South African Boeke Literary Prize, longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was an IndieNext Great Read, a Target Book Club Pick, a ChaptersIndigo Heather's Pick, and an Amnesty International Book Club Pick.Her second novel, The Golden Son, was published in 2015-16 around the world, was a #1 international bestseller, a Target Book Club Pick, a Costco Buyer's Pick, and was awarded the French literary prize, Prix des Lyceens Folio.
- Her first two novels have sold over two million copies worldwide, and her third novel, The Shape of Family, is announced to be published in October 2019 in Canada and March 2020 in the U.S.Why I read (Shilpi Gowda)- HarperCollins Publishers
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