About Shashi Bhat
Born 1983. Shashi Bhat is a Canadian novelist, writer, editor and university teacher.
Shashi Bhat is a Canadian writer. Her 2021 novel The Most Precious Substance on Earth was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.
Her debut novel, The Family Took Shape, was published in 2013. Bhat was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2010,
Originally from Richmond Hill, Ontario, she is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a professor of creative writing at Douglas College. She is of Kashmiri descent.
Her short story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts was longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize, and shortlisted for the 2025 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. It won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
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