Q. Who are you and what are you best known for? My name is Nasrullah Anwar. I was the first of my siblings to be born in England. My parents are from Jehlum, Pakistan. My father worked in the cotton mills in East Lancashire and then as a maintenance officer at my boarding school. I …
Tanika Gupta
The Theatre Issue: The Asian Writer caught up with playwright Tanika Gupta, who recently adapted Dickens’ Great Expectations for the stage.
Anjali Joseph shortlisted for The Desmond Elliot Prize 2011
Former commissioning editor of ELLE Magazine India, Anjali Joseph has been shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize alongside Dazed & Confused writer Ned Beauman and unemployed civil servant Stephen Kelman. Both Beauman and Joseph had been working as journalists when they wrote their first novels, whereas Kelman had just been made redundant from his job …
Rahul Bhattacharya
The Asian Writer talks to first time novelist Rahul Bhattacharya
Introducing Urbantopia and teenage novelist Mina Bint Muhammad
Continuing with our series highlighting independent publishers we caught up with Ola Laniyan-Amoako and author of See Red, Mina Bint Muhammed
Dipika Rai
The Asian Writer talks to author of Someone Else’s Garden, Dipika Rai.
Aatish Taseer
The Asian Writer talks to author of The Temple Goers, Aatish Taseer
The essential 7 steps of time management for writers
Do you find yourself procrastinating or writing endlessly; yet never getting anything completed? Follow seven steps to manage your time more effectively. Start by noting how you spend your time. Are you checking emails instead of writing? Are you spending too much time in rewriting? This step will help you to identify those things that …
Butterfly
‘So what exactly did you decide?’ It was two years later that Sato-san put the question to me. The two of us had been hiding for two whole bloody years, terrified every single moment while moving about in the marshes along the river, where I caught small, skimpy meals to support us. We couldn’t turn …
The Grand Trunk Road
The Grand Trunk Road launched this week. The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, and most famous highway in southern Asia. The book explores the roads history, showing why it was so crucial to the process of migration to Britain and how the close links between Britain and places along it continue to this …