Sathnam Sanghera talks about his debut novel, Marriage Material
Nikesh Shukla
The Asian Writer caught up with Nikesh Shukla to talk about his new food novella, The Time Machine
The last word on advances and Vikram Seth
Advances are tricky things for publishers. At Dahlia Publishing I don’t offer an advance simply because it’s a small press and there’s really no money in the bank for me to be able to invest in an author’s career by giving money up front. But conglomerate publishers have always (no matter how small, or diminishing …
Jhumpa Lahiri longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri has been longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. (Tuesday 23 July 2013.) Lahiri’s second novel, The Lowland (scheduled to be published by Bloomsbury in September) follows the story of two brothers. Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable, often mistaken for the …
Palo Stickland
Author, Palo Stickland answers five questions about her first novel, Finding Takri
Fault by Praveen Aldangadi
Amma was ritualistically watering her plants, which included fighting with pigeons and making small talk with squirrels. The rodent droppings never bothered her but she would get colossally upset with bird shit. I think it was probably the unusual mixture of white and green or maybe it was just the quantity. Watering a plant was …
Bangladeshi Feminism and Shabnam Nadiya’s ‘Teacher Shortage’ in Lifelines
The normative definition of feminism is the endorsement of women’s rights, particularly that of achieving equality to men. This could be political, social, economic or even cultural for that matter. Feminism and Bangladesh. Two words that differ from the emergence of Britain’s New Woman during the Fin-de-siècle, the Western World’s First-Wave women’s suffrage movement and …
Shabnam Nadiya
Shamika Shabnam has just finished her degree in English at University of Leicester. Whilst studying she was working on an e-placement at The Asian Writer. I tell her about Lifelines, an anthology of short stories written and edited by Bangladeshi women. She shakes her head. She hasn’t heard of it. I promise to bring a …
Reflection on A dialogue on British Asian writing un-conference
It’s not everyday that you enter a room filled with emerging British Asian writers so there was a certain anxiety and trepidation as I took my seat at the table at the recent un-conference hosted by Nicole Thiara of Nottingham Trent University and Kavita Bhanot, editor of Too Asian, Not Asian Enough. The agenda had …
One minute with David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang’s Obie Award-winning Pulitzer prize finalist play Yellow Face will run for four weeks in the purpose built brand new state-of-the-art theatre in North London. Designed by David Hughes’ Architects, the theatre opened its doors for the first time earlier this month . In Yellow Face, art imitates life to great and amusing effect in …