A GREAT COUNTRY is longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize [11/13/24]
Stanford Magazine recommends A GREAT COUNTRY [10/2024]
A GREAT COUNTRY is longlisted for the New American Voices Award, "recognizing works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants."
Indigo names A GREAT COUNTRY #2 on its list of “Best Books of 2024 So Far”
CTV E-Talk’s Sonia Mangat interviews Shilpi about A GREAT COUNTRY and screen adaptations [6/4/24]
BookBub: 25 New Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down includes A GREAT COUNTRY [5/31/24]
The Kit: Need a New Book? features A GREAT COUNTRY [5/29/24]
Style Canada selects A GREAT COUNTRY as its book club pick for the month. Interview & Review
20 Amazing Books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month features A GREAT COUNTRY [5/8/24]
Mother's Day 2024: 12 Books That Explore the Joys and Challenges of Motherhood features SECRET DAUGHTER [5/12/24]
Kobo In Conversation Podcast interviews Shilpi about A GREAT COUNTRY [5/1/24]
The French edition of A GREAT COUNTRY is published under the title UN PAYS FORMIDABLE [5/2/24]
Sidra Publishing of the UAE acquires the Arabic rights to THE GOLDEN SON
San Diego Union Tribune: In A GREAT COUNTRY, a Hope of Opening Minds [4/28/24]
CTV’s Your Morning interviews Shilpi about A GREAT COUNTRY [4/8/24]
A GREAT COUNTRY debuts at #1 on the Globe & Mail Canadian Fiction Bestseller List
Cosmo Magazine names A GREAT COUNTRY one of 20 Best Books for Spring [4/2/24]
Amazon selects A GREAT COUNTRY as a Top 10 Editors Pick for April [4/1/24]
Indigo names Shilpi its Author of the Month for April [4/1/24]
CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter: Shilpi’s interview with Ali Hassan [3/30/24]
Orange County Register / LA Daily News: How the novel ‘A Great Country’ seeks to find common cause in troubled times [3/29/24]
Costco Connection interviews Shilpi for its Spotlight Book Pick, April 2024 [3/28/24]
LitHub: Shilpi recommends novels in Literary Rashomon: 10 Novels with Rotating Perspectives [3/26/24]
LitHub: A GREAT COUNTRY featured in Books Out Today [3/26/24]
Richard Crouse Radio Show: Interview with Shilpi (starts at 20:25) [3/24/24]
Real Simple selects A GREAT COUNTRY as a Best Book of 2024 [April 2024 edition]
(NPR/San Diego) KPBS Midday Edition interviews Shilpi about A GREAT COUNTRY [3/21/24]
San Diego Union-Tribune names A GREAT COUNTRY a Top 10 Book of Spring [3/17/24]
A GREAT COUNTRY is the #1 ordered book at libraries across Canada [March 2024]
BookMarks recommends A GREAT COUNTRY [ March 2024]
BookBub names A GREAT COUNTRY in Must-Read New Literary Fiction of March 2024 [3/13/24]
Chatelaine Magazine names A GREAT COUNTRY a Best Book Spring 2024 [3/7/24]
GoldHouse names A GREAT COUNTRY a pick for Women’s History Month [3/12/24]
BookBub names A GREAT COUNTRY a Best Book of Spring 2024 [3/1/24]
Goodreads names A GREAT COUNTRY as a March Book Pick [2/29/24]
Alta recommends A GREAT COUNTRY in 12 New Books for March [2/29/24]
SheReads features A GREAT COUNTRY in Most Anticipated Fiction of 2024 [2/15/24]
Author Shilpi Somaya Gowda to give Eve Marie Carson lecture in The Daily Tar Heel [2/8/24]
Conde Nast Traveler recommends A GREAT COUNTRY for its Women Who Travel Book Club [1/30/24]
Publishers’ Weekly Author Profile: Shilpi Somaya Gowda Wants to Move Beyond the Rhetoric [1/26/24]
Keys Weekly recommends A GREAT COUNTRY as one of 3 books in 2024 Literary Forecast [1/21/24]
Elle Magazine reviews A GREAT COUNTRY as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 [1/19/24]
Book Girls Guide names A GREAT COUNTRY a Best Book Club Book [1/12/24]
SheDoesTheCity names A GREAT COUNTRY in 20 Most Anticipated Book Releases [1/12/24]
Perpetual Pageturner names A GREAT COUNTRY a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 [1/11/24]
Publishers’ Weekly gives A GREAT COUNTRY a starred review [1/6/24]
Indigo names A GREAT COUNTRY a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 [1/1/24]
Readers’ Digest names A GREAT COUNTRY a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 [12/8/23]
Read Her Like a Book features A GREAT COUNTRY in Winter Books Preview [12/13/23]
Publishers’ Weekly features A GREAT COUNTRY in Spring 2024 Preview: Literary Fiction [12/4/23]
Zibby Owens names A GREAT COUNTRY a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by [9/23/23]
Shilpi shares her favorite spot to read in San Diego Union-Tribune [9/1/23]
SECRET DAUGHTER featured in Perfect Mothers’ Day Books [5/11/23]
Women's History Month Celebration with Author Shilpi Gowda in Patch Oceanside [3/16/23]
Coverage of San Diego Writers’ Festival, including Shilpi’s keynote address in Coronado Times [10/13/22]
Shilpi’s interview with NPR station KPBS Midday Edition [10/6/2022]
San Diego Writers’ Festival names Shilpi “Writer of the Year” and Keynote Festival Speaker on 10/8/2022
Amazon Studios acquires SECRET DAUGHTER film package, starring Priyanka Chopra and Sienna MIller
THE SHAPE OF FAMILY is selected as a Target Recommends Book Pick
What 100 Writers Have Been Reading During Quarantine on LitHub
THE SHAPE OF FAMILY reviewed in Rain Taxi Literary Review
Shilpi is interviewed for the San Diego Union-Tribune’s podcast Name Drop San Diego
THE SHAPE OF FAMILY hits #2 on the LA Times Bestseller List and debuts at #5 on the Southern California Independent Booksellers’ Association bestseller list
Coverage of THE SHAPE OF FAMILY in Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Shilpi lists her favorite multi-cultural family novels for Electric Literature
New York Post chooses THE SHAPE OF FAMILY as a Best Book of the week
Shilpi discusses her Quarantine Reads on Bustle
Chicago Sun-Times names THE SHAPE OF FAMILY one of its 10 Books Not to Miss
San Diego Union-Tribune features Shilpi and THE SHAPE OF FAMILY in its Spring Arts Preview
Ms. Magazine highlights THE SHAPE OF FAMILY in its March 2020 reads
USA Today names THE SHAPE OF FAMILY one of its 5 New Books Not to Miss
Shilpi reflects on 10 years since SECRET DAUGHTER on the Book Club Girl podcast
Shilpi’s interview on CBC Books’ The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rodgers
THE SHAPE OF FAMILY named to CBC Books winter reading list
SECRET DAUGHTER is named the 2nd bestselling Canadian book of the decade
Shilpi discusses “Why I Write” on CBC Books
Indigo names THE SHAPE OF FAMILY to its Best Books of 2019 List
THE SHAPE OF FAMILY debuts at #8 on the Canadian National Bestseller Lists
Toronto Star: Shilpi Somaya Gowda explores cults of personality in latest novel [10/2019]
Shilpi discusses hew new novel on Global News TV’s Morning Show [10/2019]
Gowda draws on life experiences to write novels in St. Catherine’s Standard [10/2019]
Philadelphia Inquirer names THE SHAPE OF FAMILY one of Fall 2019’s Biggest Books [9/2019]
Library Journal names THE SHAPE OF FAMILY in its Top Literary Fiction for Spring 2020 [9/2019]
Vancouver Public Library names THE SHAPE OF FAMILY in its 9 Exciting New Books of Fall [9/2019]
Chatelaine Magazine features THE SHAPE OF FAMILY in its 10 Buzziest Books of Fall [9/2019]
CBC’S Fall Book Preview features THE SHAPE OF FAMILY [9/2019]
Shilpi’s third novel, THE SHAPE OF FAMILY, will be published in Canada on 10/15/2019 by Harper Collins Canada, and in the U.S.A on 3/17/2020 by William Morrow Books (Harper Collins USA). [9/2018]
THE GOLDEN SON is awarded the Prix de Lyceens Folio (literary prize) in France [5/2018]
SECRET DAUGHTER featured in 15 Incredibly Important Books about Motherhood by Buzzfeed [5/2018]
Gowda featured in 14 Modern Fiction Authors who are Breaking New Ground
AAUW's Cover-to-Cover Author Luncheon in San Diego Union-Tribune [4/2018]
Montalvo to host NY Times best-selling novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda in San Jose Mercury News [1/2018]
Both SECRET DAUGHTER & THE GOLDEN SON on Canada's Top 150 List of all time [7/2017]
THE GOLDEN SON hits the USA Today Bestseller List [4/2017]
SECRET DAUGHTER in Toronto Star's "Five Page-Turning Books for your Favourite Mother" [5/2017]
Interview with Shilpi on Viewpoints Radio on THE GOLDEN SON and immigration [4/2017]
THE GOLDEN SON paperback hits bestseller lists in Canada and South Africa [Spring 2017]
THE GOLDEN SON featured in BookBub's 14 Books to Read If You Love ‘The Kite Runner' [3/2017]
Shilpi's interview with radio station WOCA in Ocala, Florida [starts at 15:18] [2/2017]
Shilpi & Janie Chang discuss writing, sophomore novels and more on LitHub [1/2017]
Shilpi's interview with radio station KSJC in Sioux City, Iowa [1/14/2017]
A story on Shilpi's experience in writing THE GOLDEN SON in "Transplanted Lives" in Carolina Alumni Review [11/12 2016 Issue]
THE GOLDEN SON has been chosen as the Target Book Club Pick for December 2016
Shilpi discussing immigration in Power & Influence Magazine [Fall 2016]
THE GOLDEN SON in India's FEMINA Magazine [8/16]
SECRET DAUGHTER appears on list of "Most Loved Canadian Books" [7/14/16]
THE GOLDEN SON was one of Canada's Top 5 Fiction Bestsellers in 2015 [6/30/16]
Interview with Shilpi in The National newspaper [6/8/16]
"Living in the World of Stories" - Darpan Magazine [5/26/16]
"Authors pick their favourite Shakespeare plays" - CBC Books [4/20/16]
"Dear Canada: Six Prominent People Write from the Heart to the Country" - Globe & Mail [4/16/16]
"The Inescapable Call of Home" - The Telegraph Newspaper, India [4/8/16]
"8 New Books for Every Kind of Bibliophile" - Verve Magazine, India [3/28/16]
Shilpi's Interview with New In Books [3/22/16]
"A Writer Speaks" - Scroll.in [2/23/16]
"A Tale of Two Worlds": New Indian Express [2/20/16]
"Double Trouble": Entertainment Weekly [2/16/16]
"Between two worlds": Interview in BookPage [2/16]
"Cultural identity rich terrain for novelist Gowda" in San Diego Union-Tribune [1/31/16]
Interview with Shilpi about THE GOLDEN SON in BookReporter [1/28/16]
"A long lineage of wanderers": Bestselling author Christina Baker Kline interviews Shilpi for Amazon [1/28/16]
"Author mines her own cultural background in new novel" in Rancho Santa Fe Review [1/21/16]
THE GOLDEN SON ("Un Fils en Or") discussed on France TV [1/15/16]
"Behind Closed Doors," Shilpi's essay in Manhattan Book Review on inspiration for THE GOLDEN SON [1/12/16]
BookRiot names THE GOLDEN SON one of its Most Anticipated Reads of 2016 [1/13/16]
"Curl up this winter with a good book" in About Town Magazines [1/1/16]
THE GOLDEN SON is featured in CBC Books Winter 2015 Reading List [11/30/15]
Shelagh Rogers interviews Shilpi on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter [11/23/15]
Newspaper interview with Shilpi in the Globe & Mail [11/7/15]
THE GOLDEN SON is Costco Canada Buyer's Pick [11/15]
"Shilpi Somaya Gowda's Golden Opportunity": Quill & Quire Magazine Cover Feature [11/15 issue]
"Behind Closed Doors": National Post [10/22/15]
"Gowda's new coming-of-age novel finds son at odds with his birthright": Metro News [10/21/15]
TV's Global Morning Show invites Shilpi to discuss THE GOLDEN SON [10/21/15]
Interview with Shilpi on CBC Books [10/20/15]
Shilpi discusses THE GOLDEN SON on Canada AM television [10/19/15]
Toronto Life Magazine features Shilpi and THE GOLDEN SON in its Best of Fall 2015 Books
SECRET DAUGHTER is chosen as the Amnesty International Book Club Pick for 10/2015. Download discussion guide. Listen to podcast of discussion with Shilpi and Heather O'Neill.
THE GOLDEN SON is Chatelaine's Pocket Book Club Pick in its 10/2015 issue
The screen rights to THE GOLDEN SON have been optioned to Conquering Lion Pictures [9/1/15]
Globe & Mail Summer Reading Series concludes with an exclusive preview of THE GOLDEN SON [8/29/15]
iBooks features THE GOLDEN SON in Fall's Biggest Books
Quill & Quire Fall books preview features THE GOLDEN SON [7/20/2015]
CBC Fall Books Preview features THE GOLDEN SON [7/9/2015]
Macleans Most Anticipated Books of 2015 features THE GOLDEN SON [1/4/2015]
"The Sleeper Hit: SECRET DAUGHTER": CBC names SECRET DAUGHTER's half-million copies in Canada a key development [12/24/12]
Long Beach Gazette: Shilpi's appearance at the Long Beach Literary Festival
Coverage of Shilpi's appearance at the International Festival of Authors
Radio Interview: Radio Canada International (starts at 37:35)
"SECRET DAUGHTER a Runaway Success": Toronto Star [11/23/2010]
Radio Interview: CBC Radio's "The Next Chapter" with Shelagh Rogers (starts at 41:36)
"Girls Around the World: The Wisdom of Shilpi Somaya Gowda and Nicolas Kristof" [10/20/10]
"What's the Secret of Secret Daughter?" in Globe & Mail [9/17/2010]
Radio interview: NPR's New America Now with Sandip Roy [KALW, San Francisco]
"India's Forgotten Daughters": Interview in India Abroad [4/2/2010]
"The 100 Million Lost Girls of India": Dallas Morning News Op-Ed by Shilpi Somaya Gowda [3/26/2010]
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