Features – Page 4 – The Asian Writer

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

Amer Anwar: It’s taken more than ten years to get my book published

I’ve wanted to write a novel since I was 16. Even though teachers and lecturers knew I could write well, none ever suggested [...]

CG Menon’s debut collection Subjunctive Moods, is published by Dahlia Press and the predominant mood of it could be what the last story [...]

Early on in my writing career I attempted to write a police procedural featuring a lead character that was British Asian. Scouring the [...]

It is universally acknowledged that it is important for children to see themselves reflected in the books they read. It is also important [...]

I first had the pleasure of reading Priya Sharma’s work when I was a judge for the British Fantasy Awards in 2016, where [...]

Dr Rangan Chatterjee never set out to write a book but following his hit TV show, Doctor in the House, he had significant [...]

It was Sumayya Usmani’s longing for home that led her to start a memoir-based food blog. At the time, she was working as [...]

When did you decide that this story needed to be written? There are two moments that are crucial: there was one point within [...]

Following a whirlwind romance with a Yorkshire man, Shreya Sen-Handley left a successful career as a TV producer in India, to start a [...]

Q. Tell us more about your novel, Dark Chapter It’s about a crime, and the two people who are connected by that crime: the [...]