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Sunny Singh (writer)
Sunny Singh (born 20 May 1969) is an academic and writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at London Metropolitan University. Early life and education Sunny Singh was born in Varanasi, India. Her father's work with the government meant that the family regularly moved, living in cantonments and outposts including Dehradun, Dibrugarh, Along and Teju. The family also followed her father's assignments abroad, living in Pakistan, the United States and Namibia. Singh attended Brandeis University where she majored in English and American Literature. She holds a master's degree in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Career Singh worked as a journalist and management executive in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa before returning to India in 1995 to focus on writing. She worked as a freelance writer and journalist until 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhalak Prize
The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour is an annual literary prize awarded to British or British-resident BAME writers. £1,000 is awarded to the sole winner. The Jhalak Prize launched in 2016 and was created by writers Sunny Singh, Nikesh Shukla, and Media Diversified. It is supported by The Authors’ Club and an anonymous donor, and is the second literary prize in the UK to only accept entries by writers of colour, following the SI Leeds Literary Prize The SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial award founded in 2012 by Soroptimist International of Leeds (SI Leeds) – a branch of the worldwide women's organization Soroptimist International – for unpublished fiction written by Black and Asian w ... for BAME women writers, which was first awarded in 2012. In 2016, the Equality and Human Rights Commission praised: "this award is the type of action which the Commission supports and recommends." Winners References External links Official website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Births
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is First inauguration of Richard Nixon, sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev, An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Leonid Brezhnev, Brezhnev es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antisemitism has historically been manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized pogroms by mobs, police forces, or genocide. Although the term did not come into common usage until the 19th century, it is also applied to previous and later anti-Jewish incidents. Notable instances of persecution include the Rhineland massacres preceding the First Crusade in 1096, the Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290, the 1348–1351 persecution of Jews during the Black Death, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, the Cossack massacres in Ukraine from 1648 to 1657, various anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Clanchy
Kate Clanchy MBE (born 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher. Early life She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne). She was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh and at the University of Oxford, where she studied English. Career She lived in London's East End for several years, before moving to Oxfordshire where she now works as a teacher, journalist and freelance writer. Her poetry and seven radio plays have been broadcast by BBC Radio. She is a regular contributor to ''The Guardian'' newspaper; her work appeared in ''The Scotsman'', the ''New Statesman'' and ''Poetry Review''. She also writes for radio and broadcasts on the BBC's World Service, Radio 3 and Radio 4. She is a Creative Writing Fellow of Oxford Brookes University and teaches Creative Writing at the Arvon Foundation. She is currently one of the writers-in-residence at the charity First Story. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chimene Suleyman
Chimene or Chimène Suleyman is a writer from London of Northern Cypriot descent, who has written on the politics of race and immigration in media including ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', the BBC and NPR, and co-edited '' The Good Immigrant USA'' in 2019. Personal life Suleyman was born in London, but her father's family are from Northern Cyprus. She has written about her grandfather's death in 1964, when he was tortured and killed by soldiers, and his body, with a dozen others, seen in a much-reproduced photograph. Literary career Along with Dylan Sage, Suleyman created the monthly spoken-word event "Kid, I Wrote Back" in London, which ran from 2010 until at least 2013. In 2014, a writer on sexism called Laura Bates chose Suleyman's poetry collection '' Outside Looking On'' as one of her "best books" of the year, saying that it "presents startlingly perceptive snapshots of human experience, delving powerfully into themes that range from big-city loneliness and longing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monisha Rajesh
Monisha Rajesh (born 1982) is a British journalist and travel writer. Early life Rajesh was born in Norfolk, England, the child of two Indian doctors. The family moved from Sheffield to Madras, India, in 1991. After two years, "fed up with soap eating rats, stolen human hearts and hecreepy colonel across the road, we returned to England with a bitter taste in our mouths", and she made only occasional visits to India over the next twenty years: "little more than the occasional family wedding had succeeded in tempting me back". She attended King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, the University of Leeds, and has a postgraduate diploma in magazine journalism from the Department of Journalism, City University. Career Rajesh has worked for ''The Week'' and written for ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', ''The New York Times'' and ''Time''. In 2010, she embarked on a four-month journey around India by train, using 80 train journeys to reach the furthest points of the Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Ross
Jacob Ross (born 1956) is a Grenada-born poet, playwright, journalist, novelist and creative writing tutor, based in the UK since 1984. Life and career Jacob Ross was born in Hope Vale on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where he attended the Grenada Boys' Secondary School, later studying at the University of Grenoble, France. Since 1984 he has resided in Britain. He was formerly an editor of ''Artrage'', an intercultural arts magazine, and is now associate fiction editor at Peepal Tree Press and associate editor of ''SABLE'' Literary Magazine. He has judged the Scott Moncrieff Prize (for French translation), the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize (2008) and the Tom-Gallon Trust Award (2009). Ross has toured and lectured widely, including in Germany, Korea, the Middle East, and The Caribbean.Featured Writers: Jacob Ross Cari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Reni Eddo-Lodge (born 25 September 1989) is a British journalist and author, whose writing primarily focuses on feminism and exposing structural racism. She has written for a range of publications, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Voice'', ''BuzzFeed'', ''Vice'', '' i-D'' and '' Dazed & Confused'', and is a contributor to the 2019 anthology ''New Daughters of Africa'', edited by Margaret Busby. In June 2020, following the George Floyd protests, her book ''Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'' (published in 2017) rose 155 places to top the UK non-fiction paperback chart, at the same time as Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 novel ''Girl, Woman, Other'' topped the paperback fiction chart, the first time books by black British women headed both charts. On 16 June 2020 she became the first black British woman to be No. 1 overall in the British book charts. Early life and education Eddo-Lodge was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Gunaratne
Guy Gunaratne (born 1984) is a British journalist, filmmaker and novelist. Gunaratne identifies as non-binary and uses he/they/them pronouns. In 2019 their first novel, ''In Our Mad and Furious City,'' won the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. They are based between London and Malmö, Sweden. Early life and education Gunaratne was born and grew up in Neasden, north west London. Their father had immigrated from Sri Lanka in 1951. They studied for a film and television degree at Brunel University London in London, then studied current affairs journalism at City, University of London. Career With fellow student and girlfriend, Heidi Lindvall, they set up a film production company. They made a film about suppression of the media in Sri Lanka a week after the civil war ended, the success of which allowed them to work in television. Though based in London, the couple followed their work in post-conflict areas around the world, living in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Sethi
Anita Sethi is a British journalist and writer, who was born in Manchester, England. Sethi has written for ''The Guardian,'' ''The Observer,'' ''The Sunday Times,'' ''The Independent,'' the ''New Statesman,'' ''Granta,'' and ''The Times Literary Supplement.'' In broadcasting she has appeared as a critic, commentator and presenter on several BBC programmes and is a regular speaker and chair at festivals in the UK and internationally. She has been published in anthologies including ''From There to Here,'' '' Roads Ahead,'' and ''Solstice Shorts.'' She has been an International Writer in Residence at the Emerging Writers' Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Sethi is the author of the memoir ''I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain'', published in 2021. In 2021 ''I Belong Here'' was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize The Wainwright Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of general outdoors, nature and UK-based travel writing. In 2020 it was spli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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