Former commissioning editor of ELLE Magazine India, Anjali Joseph has been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize alongside Dazed & Confused writer Ned Beauman and unemployed civil servant Stephen Kelman. Both Beauman and Joseph had been working as journalists when they wrote their first novels, whereas Kelman had just been made redundant from his job …
Rahul Bhattacharya
The Asian Writer talks to first time novelist Rahul Bhattacharya
Introducing Urbantopia and teenage novelist Mina Bint Muhammad
Continuing with our series highlighting independent publishers we caught up with Ola Laniyan-Amoako and author of See Red, Mina Bint Muhammed
Dipika Rai
The Asian Writer talks to author of Someone Else’s Garden, Dipika Rai.
Aatish Taseer
The Asian Writer talks to author of The Temple Goers, Aatish Taseer
The essential 7 steps of time management for writers
Do you find yourself procrastinating or writing endlessly; yet never getting anything completed? Follow seven steps to manage your time more effectively. Start by noting how you spend your time. Are you checking emails instead of writing? Are you spending too much time in rewriting? This step will help you to identify those things that …
Butterfly
‘So what exactly did you decide?’ It was two years later that Sato-san put the question to me. The two of us had been hiding for two whole bloody years, terrified every single moment while moving about in the marshes along the river, where I caught small, skimpy meals to support us. We couldn’t turn …
The Grand Trunk Road
The Grand Trunk Road launched this week. The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, and most famous highway in southern Asia. The book explores the roads history, showing why it was so crucial to the process of migration to Britain and how the close links between Britain and places along it continue to this …
Writer’s Rant: The distant hum of white noise
As an extension of Farhana Shaikh’s earlier rant about Asian writers being outsiders looking in, I have to confess that watching New Novelists 12 of the Best from The Culture Show left me a little queasy about the lack of diversity in the their list of ‘up and coming’ authors in British literary fiction. The …
The Sufi’s Garland
A new book of poetry is published this month to mark the 150th birth-anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, India’s first Nobel Laureate. The Sufi’s Garland is a Fakir’s weave of words in poetry. The stony hills of Afghanistan forms the backdrop of this sweet soulful music where the reader becomes a sojourner in a caravan, and …