Safiya Hussain

  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 …

Mustafa Abubaker

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 …

Leela Soma

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 …

Sweta Vikram

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

Kavita Bhanot on Too Asian, Not Asian Enough

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 …

Aamer Hussein

“The greatest homage you can pay the artists you admire is to find your own palette, of colours that cast new lights and new shadows on your chosen genre.”