The Asian Writer speaks to author of A Beautiful Lie, Irfan Master.
Sunjeev Sahota
1) Could you tell us a bit more about yourself and how you stumbled into writing? I was born and grew up in Derbyshire, in the north of England. After attending the local schools I went to university in London. It was really at university that I started reading novels. At first I think I …
Rekha Waheed
1. Please tell our readers a bit more about yourself. I’m a modern Muslim woman from Brit-Bengali background who hopes to change the stereotypes and misconceptions about Asian women in the cosmopolitan world. I grew up in an England with novels that catered largely for the mainstream reader. The few British Asians novels that existed …
Puneet Bhandal’s Bollywood Dream
Could you please tell us about yourself and how you got involved with writing? I started my journalistic career as a Bollywood journalist – I was Entertainments Editor for Eastern Eye in its early days – and I still spend a lot of time writing features for magazines when I am not working on my …
Kishwar Desai
The Asian Writer talks to this year’s Costa First Book Winner and author of Witness the Night, Kishwar Desai
Introducing Susan Abraham
Could you please tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into writing? I am a writer one way or the other. I worked as a magazine journalist under Singapore editors, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for several years in the Nineties before I gave up mainstream life to travel to obscure places. I …
Hema Macherla
The Asian Writer meets Hema Macherla
Meet the seventeen year old novelist, Nityasya Belpurkar
You’re the youngest published writer to be featured on The Asian Writer – do you consider yourself as a young writer? And what perception do people have of you? Of course I do. I think it’s a bit of a shock for whoever has heard of the book. Also they assume that I’m really smart which is …
Anjali Joseph
Tell us a bit about your journey as a writer so far? I was born in Bombay into quite a bookish environment and with many fervent adults around. I grew up there for a few years and then in England, and always wrote stories and other things. When I was fourteen I had a …
Nikesh Shukla
We’ve been here several times before discussing your writing. What’s happened since we last spoke? Now, I actually have a book out, Coconut Unlimited. It’s out in October on Quartet Books. Since we last spoke, I’ve signed a book deal, started developing a sitcom for a TV channel, eaten my bodyweight in idlis, now I’ve …