• CBC names A GREAT COUNTRY to its Best Books of the Year [12/10/24]

• Debut authors and Pulitzer Prize finalists make the cut for the Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist - Aspen Public Radio [11/14/24]

• A GREAT COUNTRY is longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, which seeks to honor ‘fiction that delves fearlessly into the most pressing social challenges of our time’ [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

• San Francisco Chronicle reviews THE SHAPE OF FAMILY

• 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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