The Asian Writer caught up with Romesh Gunesekera ahead of his appearance at the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature

The Asian Writer caught up with Roshi Fernando to find out more about the life of a short story writer…

The Asian Writer caught up with Sanjida O’Connell to talk about stepping outside of the mould of “ethnic literature”…

 
Q. Please tell us about your book, Three Thousand Miles for a Wish?
My book is about my journey to Mecca on the Hajj in a quest to find happiness. It is a unique story that covers the experience of Hajj from a very personal and emotional perspective.
Q. Why did you decide to write your story?
I was blown away by this journey. As soon as I arrived back into the UK from Saudi Arabia I said; ‘My God, I have got to put pen to paper and write about this. And …

Author of The Fourth Passenger, Mini Nair talks to The Asian Writer.

Mustafa Abubaker (pictured on the left) with actor and comedian, Aziz Ansari
Q. Please tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into writing?

I’m a freshman at High PointUniversityin North Carolinabut I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I got into writing as early as the fifth grade when my class was assigned to write a piece on 9/11. My teacher called me in during break time to tell me how great it was and even called my parents at work to tell them about it. Ever since then, I have …

We speak exclusively to author extraordinaire HM Naqvi…

Q. Please tell us a bit about yourself and how you launched into a writing career?
I had always been surrounded by books and writing. Grandpa, dad, some aunts and uncles all lawyers were all involved in writing and editing Law Journals in India so from birth books were part of my upbringing. I used to write for fun when I worked full time as a teacher and did a Saturday morning leisure class on writing as a hobby. When I took early retirement from my post as Principal Teacher I …

On the release of her recent novel, Perfectly Untraditional, The Asian Writer caught up with author and poet Sweta Vikram

Please tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into the world of writing?
I was born in London and lived in Birmingham for many years before moving to India. I now live in Manchester. The best thing I have done is spending two years running a small guest house Seclude, in the mountains in Himachal Pradesh in India.  I always wanted to write, when I was nine I wrote a long story about a penguin and a tiger in a zoo, who run away together – my teacher wrote in my …