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Sunjeev Sahota is a British novelist and short story writer. He was born in Derby, England, in 1981. He studied English Literature at the University of Nottingham and received his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Sahota's debut novel, Ours Are the Streets, was published in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel, The Year of the Runaways, was published in 2015 and won the 2015 Encore Award and the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His third novel, The Blackbird House, was published in 2020. Sahota has also written several short stories, which have been published in various magazines and anthologies. He has been awarded the BBC National Short Story Award, the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Sahota currently lives in London with his wife and two children.

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2018

In June 2018 Sahota was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.

2015

His second novel, The Year of the Runaways, about the experience of illegal immigrants in Britain, was published in June 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

2013

It was like I was making up for lost time – not that I had to catch up, but it was as though I couldn't quite believe this world of storytelling I had found and I wanted to get as much of it down me as I possibly could.

In 2013 he was included in a Granta list of 20 best young writers, released 20 years after the magazine first published such a list.

2011

After Midnight's Children, Sahota went on to read The God of Small Things, A Suitable Boy and The Remains of the Day. In an interview in January 2011, he stated:

2005

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. Sahota was prompted to start writing the book by the 7 July 2005 London bombings. According to the Sheffield Telegraph, the book is "being mentioned in literary supplements as one of the novels to look out for in 2011". Ours are the Streets has been reviewed in a number of national newspapers, including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Times.

1981

Sunjeev Sahota FRSL (born 1981) is a British novelist whose first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in January 2011 and whose second novel, The Year of the Runaways, was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature in 2017.

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.

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