News

• Shilpi’s third novel, THE SEEKERS, has been sold to William Morrow Books (Harper Collins USA) and Harper Collins Canada, and is slated for a 2019 release. [September 2018]

• THE GOLDEN SON is awarded the Prix de Lyceens Folio (literary prize) in France [May 2018]

• SECRET DAUGHTER featured in 15 Incredibly Important Books about Motherhood by Buzzfeed [May 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 [Apr 2018]

• Montalvo to host NY Times best-selling novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda in San Jose Mercury News [Jan 2018]

• Both SECRET DAUGHTER & THE GOLDEN SON on Canada's Top 150 List of all time [Jul 2017]

• THE GOLDEN SON hits the USA Today Bestseller List [Apr 2017]

• SECRET DAUGHTER in Toronto Star's "Five Page-Turning Books for your Favourite Mother" [May 2017]

• Interview with Shilpi on Viewpoints Radio on THE GOLDEN SON and immigration [Apr 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' [Mar 2017]
  

• Shilpi's interview with radio station WOCA in Ocala, Florida [starts at 15:18] [Feb 2017]
  

• Shilpi & Janie Chang discuss writing, sophomore novels and more on LitHub [Jan 2017]
  

• Shilpi's interview with radio station KSJC in Sioux City, Iowa [Jan 14, 2017]
  

• A story on Shilpi's experience in writing THE GOLDEN SON in "Transplanted Lives" in Carolina Alumni Review [Nov/Dec 2016 Issue]
  

• THE GOLDEN SON has been chosen as the Target Book Club Pick for December 2016. The exclusive Target edition and limited edition signed copies will be on sale nationwide at Target stores and website on 11/29/16
  

• 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" - An interview with Shilpi 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?": The 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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