Features – The Asian Writer

Interviews, reviews and first person pieces on South Asian literature and writing.

A Suitable Watch? Asha Krishna reviews the BBC adaptation

When the BBC televised its first episode of A Suitable Boy, I recalled reading it as a 15-year-old but retained nothing except the [...]

by Alia Raffia It was during a family trip to the magical city of Lahore aged fourteen that I fell in love with [...]

When did you have the initial idea for Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line? When I was working as a reporter in India, [...]

The cover A Summary The Cure For a Crime is about the twins, Ali and Tulip, whose Mum has got a strange new [...]

The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction, a short story award which promotes science fiction and related genres is now open for entries. Now [...]

by Farah Damji I helped to set up The View Magazine, a publication by and for women in the criminal justice system, with [...]

by Leela Soma Set in South India, in the tiny cantonment of Nandagiri The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan traces the lives of the [...]

by Jude Higgins Flash fiction is a form of short short fiction that, in recent years, has been growing in popularity worldwide. To [...]

With falling author earnings it is common for writers to supplement their income with teaching or part time work. But the portfolio career [...]

Meena Kandasamy’s latest novel, Exquisite Cadavers began as a response to her second novel, When I Hit You. It follows the story of [...]