Raising the profile of South Asian writers since 2007
Forty years may have passed since her ground-breaking report, The Art Britain Ignores, and yet it’s ‘extraordinary’ that the issues around diversity and the arts remain as ‘sharp, troubling and vibrant as ever,’ Naseem Khan has said. The comments were made during her opening address delivered at Curve Theatre’s ‘Diversity in British Theatre’ conference, which …
As editor of The Asian Writer, I’ve written before about whether Asian writers are outsiders looking in, ranted about the dynamics of writing British Asian fiction, and that Asian writers struggle to shake off cultural stereotypes. So, I was thrilled to be invited to join a panel discussion on ‘The Page is White? The publishing industry …