Sohan Koonar
Age: 68
Ethnicity: Sikh
Occupation: Author
Personal & professional philosophy:
My personal philosophy is that if you cannot help someone do not harm them. My professional philosophy is to write my stories ethically, in a non-judgemental style and let my readers reach their own conclusions.
New book and upcoming projects:
Paper Lions is the first of a planned Lions historical fiction trilogy that will span from pre-Second World War Greater Punjab to the modern day. The first book that has been released (Paper Lions) covers the period 1937 to 1965.
What is the highlight of your work?
The fact that the novel has been published both in Canada and India and currently available in book stores in seven countries and world wide via online retailers. The real highlight is positive comments and feedback from non-Punjabi, non-Sikh readers. Secondly I am perhaps one of the first recordists of the Bajigars in English literature, a culture and people that is fast disappearing. I feel blessed to have played a role in saving some of it in my book.
Future goals:
Future books are going to be the second volume, Wounded Lions that is going to cover a very turbulent period in Punjab and Sikh modern history from 1966 to 1995. After that Lions In Spring will address the lives of Sikhs in diaspora.
