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Sunjeev Sahota
(b.1981)Sunjeev Sahota is a British novelist. Sahota was born in 1981 in Derby, and his family moved to Chesterfield when he was seven years old. His paternal grandparents had emigrated to Britain from the Punjab in 1966. After finishing school, Sahota studied mathematics at Imperial College London. As of January 2011, he was working in marketing for the insurance company Aviva.
Sahota had not read a novel until he was 18 years old, when he read Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children while visiting relatives in India before starting university. After Midnight's Children, Sahota went on to read The God of Small Things, A Suitable Boy and The Remains of the Day.
In 2013 he was included in the Granta list of 20 best young British writers.
Sahota's first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in January 2011 by Picador. He wrote the book in the evenings and at weekends because of his day job. The novel tells the story of a British Pakistani youth who becomes a suicide bomber. His second novel, The Year of the Runaways, about the experience of illegal immigrants in Britain, was published in June 2015.
Sahota had not read a novel until he was 18 years old, when he read Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children while visiting relatives in India before starting university. After Midnight's Children, Sahota went on to read The God of Small Things, A Suitable Boy and The Remains of the Day.
In 2013 he was included in the Granta list of 20 best young British writers.
Sahota's first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in January 2011 by Picador. He wrote the book in the evenings and at weekends because of his day job. The novel tells the story of a British Pakistani youth who becomes a suicide bomber. His second novel, The Year of the Runaways, about the experience of illegal immigrants in Britain, was published in June 2015.
Genres: Literary Fiction
New and upcoming books
Novels
Ours Are the Streets (2011)
The Year of the Runaways (2015)
China Room (2021)
The Spoiled Heart (2024)
The Year of the Runaways (2015)
China Room (2021)
The Spoiled Heart (2024)
Sunjeev Sahota recommends
Other Names for Love (2022)
Taymour Soomro
"An exceptional novel about fathers and sons, desire and love, and the long reach of the past."
The Exhibitionist (2022)
Charlotte Mendelson
"A truly wonderful novel, and a funny and wise one, too; the individual components sparkle, the whole movement beguiles."
A Passage North (2021)
Anuk Arudpragasam
"Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid—this is a superb novel, a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in."
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