The Asian Writer interviews debut novelist, Rosie Dastgir
Fifty Shades of Indian Erotica: Saris and spice
Fifty Shades of Grey, a work of erotic fiction has become the fastest selling book of all time. With Fifty Shades of Grey sweeping the nation, we cross borders over to India, where not one, but two anthologies of Erotic fiction are due to be published this year. We’re caught up with Sheba Karim …
Anjali Joseph
Q. Tell us a little bit more about your second novel, Another Country? The novel opens when Leela, aged twenty-one, is in Paris at the end of the last millennium. It’s her first job after university, and begins a journey that the book follows, through her twenties in Paris, London, and then Bombay. Q. …
Nikita Lalwani
The Asian Writer catches up with Nikita Lalwani, whose second novel The Village is published this month.
Romesh Gunesekera
The Asian Writer caught up with Romesh Gunesekera ahead of his appearance at the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
Roshi Fernando
The Asian Writer caught up with Roshi Fernando to find out more about the life of a short story writer…
Sanjida O’Connell
The Asian Writer caught up with Sanjida O’Connell to talk about stepping outside of the mould of “ethnic literature”…
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 …
Mini Nair
Author of The Fourth Passenger, Mini Nair talks to The Asian Writer.
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 …