Devyani Saltzman
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Devyani Saltzman is a Canadian writer.
She is the author of Shooting Water, a memoir, as well as articles for The Globe and Mail, The Atlantic Monthly, Marie Claire, TOK: an anthology of new Toronto writing, The Literary Review of Canada and Tehelka, India's weekly known for arts and investigative journalism. Shooting Water received starred reviews in both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and was called "A poignant memoir" by The New York Times. It has been published internationally.
Devyani graduated from Oxford University with a degree in anthropology and sociology and is currently Curator of Literary Programming for Luminato, Toronto's Festival of Arts and Creativity. She has brought Canadian and international authors, such as Ben Okri, Azar Nafisi and Roddy Doyle, to Toronto to discuss subjects as diverse as the future of African literature and fiction in the age of ebooks. Her work as a writer and curator has a strong focus on politics, social justice and human interest stories. Devyani has been a jury member for the National Magazine Awards and the Canada Council for the Arts and sits on the advisory committees for Project Bookmark Canada, The Toronto Museum Project and the Maharaja Exhibit at the AGO. She is currently working on her first novel.
She is the author of Shooting Water, a memoir, as well as articles for The Globe and Mail, The Atlantic Monthly, Marie Claire, TOK: an anthology of new Toronto writing, The Literary Review of Canada and Tehelka, India's weekly known for arts and investigative journalism. Shooting Water received starred reviews in both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and was called "A poignant memoir" by The New York Times. It has been published internationally.
Devyani graduated from Oxford University with a degree in anthropology and sociology and is currently Curator of Literary Programming for Luminato, Toronto's Festival of Arts and Creativity. She has brought Canadian and international authors, such as Ben Okri, Azar Nafisi and Roddy Doyle, to Toronto to discuss subjects as diverse as the future of African literature and fiction in the age of ebooks. Her work as a writer and curator has a strong focus on politics, social justice and human interest stories. Devyani has been a jury member for the National Magazine Awards and the Canada Council for the Arts and sits on the advisory committees for Project Bookmark Canada, The Toronto Museum Project and the Maharaja Exhibit at the AGO. She is currently working on her first novel.
Devyani Saltzman's Books
Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking
By Devyani Saltzman

"In Shooting Water, Devyani Saltzman recounts her experience straddling the separate worlds of her divorced parents in Canada and India — navigating between two religions (Hindu and Judaism), two traditions, two cultures, and two people — belonging to both and neither at once. This cross-cultural memoir chronicles her life-changing experiences in India and Sri Lanka, the struggle to produce the controversial Oscar-nominated film, and the emergence of a deeper understanding between mother and daughter."
For more information about Shooting Water, please visit the Newmarket Press website.
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