Adnan Sarwar triumphs in The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize

Adnan Sarwar, a 35-year old former British soldier who served in the Iraq War, has beaten more than 200 entrants to win the second Financial Times and Bodley Head non-fiction essay competition. His work, British Muslim Soldier, is a meditation on identity, dealing with why he, a Pakistani boy fromBurnley with no degree, decided to …