Niven Govinden (born 1973) is an English

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

. He was born in

East Sussex East Sussex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England on the English Channel coast. It is bordered by Kent to the north and east, West Sussex to the west, and Surrey to the north-west. The largest settlement in East Su ...

and then educated at

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

, University of London, where he studied film. To date he has written five novels and a number of short stories. His writing has appeared in the magazine '' Bad Idea'', and his short story ''My Cinephiliac Shame'' appeared in the 2008 ''Bad Idea Anthology''. He was appointed the Chair of Judges for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize.

Novels

''We Are The New Romantics'' (2004) ''Graffiti My Soul'' (2007) ''Black Bread White Beer'' (2013) ''All the Days and Nights'' (2014) ''This Brutal House'' (2019) ''Diary of a Film'' (2021)

References

External links

Govinden Canongate pageInterview with 3:AM Magazine
*https://greencarnationprize.com/2015/06/17/the-green-carnation-prize-judges-2015/ 1973 births Living people People from East Sussex 21st-century English novelists Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London English male novelists 21st-century English male writers {{England-novelist-stub