Balli Kaur Jaswal is a Singaporean novelist known for her internationally acclaimed fiction. Her debut novel Inheritance won the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelist Award in 2014 and was adapted into a film presented at the 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts. Jaswal's second novel, Sugarbread, was a finalist for the 2015 inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Her third novel, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, released in 2017, significantly expanded her international readership. The book was selected for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine online book club, which helped drive its popularity. Movie rights to the novel have been acquired by Scott Free Productions and Film4. In 2019, the Business Times recognized Jaswal as the most internationally well-known Singapore novelist after Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians.