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Londonstani
''Londonstani'' is Gautam Malkani's debut novel published in the United Kingdom in 2006. The book's name is derived from the setting of the novel, London, and the story's subject matter, the lives of second and third generation South Asian immigrants. The book was highly promoted, but did not do well commercially. The novel was a "much-anticipated debut" well before its release, as a result of the book's reception at the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair and the six-figure advance reportedly paid for the rights to the book by publishing company Fourth Estate. Publication was accompanied by an expensive promotion campaign including a tour of the United States. According to ''Time'' magazine, the advance for the book as the first part of a two-book deal was $675,000. Despite the attention paid to the book, sales were relatively weak and by April 2008 only 15,000 copies had been sold. ''The Guardian'' reported that people in the publishing industry started talking of the "Londonstani effect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gautam Malkani
Gautam Malkani is a journalist for '' The Financial Times'', and the author of the novel ''Londonstani''. He has worked on the FT's UK news desk in London as well as in the Washington bureau. He is currently an associate editor on the FT Weekend Magazine, after a spell on the newspaper's Business Life section. He was born in Hounslow, London on 27 August 1976. Malkani's mother was a Ugandan of Indian descent. He studied Social and Political Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as .... Malkani currently resides in London. References External linksGuatam Malkani's Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bridle
James Bridle (born 1980) is an artist, writer and publisher based in London. Bridle coined the New Aesthetic; their work "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one." Their work has explored aspects of the western security apparatus including drones and asylum seeker deportation. Bridle has written for ''WIRED'', Icon (architecture magazine), ''Icon'', Domus (magazine), ''Domus'', ''Cabinet Magazine'', ''The Atlantic'' and many other publications, and writes a regular column for ''The Guardian'' on publishing and technology. Career Bridle studied computer science and cognitive science at University College London and holds a master's degree. They have been Adjunct Professor on the Interactive Telecommunications Programme at New York University. In 2018 Bridle curated the Berlin exposition ''Agency'', a group show on works of the artists Morehshin Allahyari, Sophia Al Maria, Ingrid Burrington, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Constant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |