Sathnam Sanghera Explained

Sathnam Sanghera
Honorific Suffix:FRSL
Birth Place:Wolverhampton, England
Occupation:Journalist and author
Education:Wolverhampton Grammar School
Alma Mater:Christ's College, Cambridge
Employer:The Times
Express and Star
Notable Works:The Boy with the Topknot (2009)

Sathnam Sanghera FRSL (born 1976) is a British journalist and best-selling author.[1]

Early life and education

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Indian Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976.[2] His parents had emigrated from India to the UK in 1968.[3] [4] He was raised a Sikh. He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School, an independent school where he had gained a place after passing the 11+ examination and was funded by the government's Assisted Places Scheme. He graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.[2]

Career

Before becoming a writer, Sanghera worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York.[2] As a student, he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE TV.[5] Between 1998 and 2006, he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.[2]

Sanghera joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007.[2] He also writes the motoring column for Management Today magazine.[2] His memoir, The Boy with the Topknot (2009), was adapted for BBC Two in 2017.[6] His novel Marriage Material, originally published in 2013, was inspired in part by Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale.[7]

In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).[8] [9]

In November 2021, his Channel 4 documentary series about race, Empire State of Mind, received a four-star review in The Guardian from Chitra Ramaswamy.[10]

Personal life

Sanghera lives in North London.[2] [11]

Publications

Awards

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home . 2022-11-24 . Sathnam Sanghera . en-US.
  2. Web site: Biog . Sathnam Sanghera . 19 May 2015.
  3. News: Perkins. Roger. Loves, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton. The Telegraph. 9 March 2008.
  4. Web site: Batt. David. Sathnam Sanghera: interview. Time Out. 5 March 2008.
  5. Web site: Les asiatiques dans les médias | Mag, news, actu, jeux, let's play en folie avec notre amie l'asiatique !.
  6. News: Saner. Emine. Sathnam Sanghera on The Boy with the Topknot: 'Mum cried while she told our story. I cried as I wrote it'. The Observer. 5 November 2017. 5 November 2017.
  7. Web site: Sathnam Sanghera website .
  8. Onwuemezi, Natasha, "Rankin, McDermid and Levy named new RSL fellows", The Bookseller, 7 June 2017.
  9. https://rsliterature.org/fellow/sathnam-sanghera/ "Sathnam Sanghera"
  10. News: Empire State of Mind review – 'Within moments, I am crying on to my laptop'. Chitra . Ramaswamy. 20 November 2021. The Guardian.
  11. News: O'Hara . Mary . Interview Home truths . 19 August 2009 . The Guardian . London. 4 October 2016 .
  12. Book: Sanghera, Sathnam . Stolen History . en.
  13. Book: Sanghera, Sathnam . Empireworld . 2024-01-25 . en.
  14. Sundari, "Sikh Author Wins Mind Book of the Year Award", The Langar Hall, 26 May 2009.
  15. Web site: Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist . The Guardian . Brown, Mark . 26 November 2013 . 27 November 2013.

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