Gurjinder Basran

{{short description|Canadian novelist}}

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| occupation = novelist

| period = 2010s-present

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| notableworks = Everything Was Good-bye

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Gurjinder Basran (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist,"Torn between two cultures; Gurjinder Basran takes a fascinating look at realities of growing up Indo-Canadian in North Delta". Vancouver Sun, January 1, 2011. whose debut novel Everything Was Good-bye won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2011.{{cite web |title=Dual-culture novel garners BC Book Prize fiction award |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/Dual+culture+novel+garners+Book+Prize+fiction+award/4661271/story.html |work=Vancouver Sun |author=Tracy Sherlock |date=April 22, 2011 |accessdate=September 12, 2012 |archive-date=May 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531185906/http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Dual+culture+novel+garners+Book+Prize+fiction+award/4661271/story.html |url-status=dead }} The novel was published by Mother Tongue Publishing in 2010, and was more widely republished by Penguin Canada in 2011 following her award win.

Basran is a graduate of the creative writing program at Simon Fraser University. In 2016, she served on the jury for the amazon.ca First Novel Award."Awad's first novel wins $40,000 prize". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, May 30, 2016.

Her second novel, Someone You Love Is Gone, was published in 2017.[https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/review-gurjinder-basrans-someone-you-love-is-gone-is-a-story-of-loss-and-recovery/article36208707/ "Review: Gurjinder Basran's Someone You Love Is Gone is a story of loss and recovery"]. The Globe and Mail, September 8, 2017.