Gurjinder basran biography sample

By Sarah Schuchard

Centred on an Indo-Canadian girl growing up in Delta, Everything Was Good-bye brings light to many struggles that come with self-discovery, love, loss, cultural expectations and growing up as an outsider.

Gurjinder Basran, author of the book and Kwantlen’s new writer-in-residence, spoke to the Runner about writing, racism, feminism and what inspired her onto her debut novel.

Sarah Schuchard: What made you decide to pursue writing?

Gurjinder Basran: It was mostly by accident.

I’d been starting to write in my journal just about my childhood … my teenage years, and my sisters.

Gurjinder basran biography sample pdf

I have been sharing some of those thoughts about our upbringing and those difficulties. Then, after a while I just started to fictionalize things that happened to me and I found I started really enjoying it and it was the best part of my day.

Then, eventually after six or seven months of writing at home for my pleasure I saw an ad for a continuing education  in Simon Fraser and