Sharmila Chauhan talks about her new play, The Husbands, a thought provoking production, directed by Janet Steel
The Gardener – Jocelyn Watson
Never in a sari. On Sundays she’d always change first. Back from mass, she’d unwind the six yards of silk or chiffon, replacing it with her baggy black cotton tracksuit and her brown pumps. Even in those unflattering clothes, her black eyes and quiet grace shone through. Read more of The Gardener by Jocelyn Watson, The Asian Writer Short Story Prize 2013 Winner
2014 Books Round Up
I have a confession. Sometimes I can become a little too obsessed with my fellow writers. In my enthusiasm to give Asian writers a platform to showcase their work and my commitment to find the best emerging talents, I can become (a bit of) an online stalker. Bilal Tanweer is one of the victims of …
On Being Mary – Sulaxana Hippisley
The Asian Writer Short Story Competition – Runner Up Angela O’ Connor was the Virgin Mary. Everyone knew it was true. Something about the neon scrunchie with black dots that held up her hair. And her lips. You only saw lips like that in my sister’s magazines. Bliss or Mizz. Those ones where they told you …
Adnan Sarwar triumphs in The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize
Adnan Sarwar, a 35-year old former British soldier who served in the Iraq War, has beaten more than 200 entrants to win the second Financial Times and Bodley Head non-fiction essay competition. His work, British Muslim Soldier, is a meditation on identity, dealing with why he, a Pakistani boy fromBurnley with no degree, decided to …
Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Cyrus Mistry was awarded The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his second novel, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer this weekend (Jan 18, 2014). Mistry was awarded the $50,000 prize (just over £30,000) at a ceremony held at this year’s ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer tells the story of doomed …
Minoli Salgado, SI Leeds Literary Prize winner 2012
The SI Leeds Literary Prize is now open for entries. The biennial award is for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women residing in the UK and has a prize fund over £3,000. In its inaugural year, the £2000 first prize was awarded to Sri Lankan writer, Minoli Salgado, who heard about the prize …
Sanghera on Costa First Novel Award shortlist
Sathnam Sanghera, author of Marriage Material has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The author, featured here by The Asian Writer last month, took to Twitter to thank his supporters. many thanks for kind words about @costabookawards nomination for Marriage Material. More info about the book here: http://t.co/EWJMukQiSZ — Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) …
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Shortlist
Six titles have made the shortlist of the fourth DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014. (November 20, 2013) It is the first year that Indian publishers have dominated the prize, with four of the six titles published by the publishing giant Penguin Random House. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is for US …
The Asian Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers you (and I) really should be reading
“Write a vampire novel with an Asian angle?” That was the advice a first time novelist was given recently, by his new agent. You heard it here first: A vampire novel with an Asian angle. “So what do you think I should do?” he said, in all seriousness. I could sense he was uneasy about …