Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jaspreet Singh

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Toronto, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Jaspreet Singh worked on his second novel while at MacDowell. His debut novel, Chef, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for four awards, including the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Studios

Wood

Jaspreet Singh worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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