Q. Firstly congratulations on winning the Grassroutes commission. How did you go about producing a winning brief for the commission. What inspired you to create fiction based on conversations with strangers? Thank you. Having recently moved to Leicester, I would chat to the locals about the city. It was while walking home after buying …
Niven Govinden
On publication of his latest novel, Black Bread White Beer, The Asian Writer exchanged emails with Niven Govinden…
Farhad Sorabjee
Q. How come we’ve not heard of you before? Tell us more about yourself and how you found yourself writing? A: Well, quite simply, you haven’t heard of me because you didn’t need to have till now! I’ve been writing since university, but have practised as a lawyer ever since. Still do. I did in …
Kishwar Desai
The Asian Writer catches up with Kishwar Desai, author of Origins of Love
Irfan Master
Irfan Master and I have arranged to meet at The Curve, a recent addition to Leicester’s regeneration in the Cultural Quarter. We’re in Master’s hometown. This is where he grew up, worked as a librarian, before moving to London to take up a post at the National Literacy Trust. He’s returned home, a decade later, …
Rosie Dastgir
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