Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera (born 1976) is a British journalist and author.

Early life and education

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Indian Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976.[1][2] His parents had emigrated from India to the UK in 1968.[3][4] He was raised a Punjabi boy.[4] He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and 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]

He 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.[1] His novel Marriage Material, originally published in 2013, was inspired in part by Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale.[6]

In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[7][8]

In November 2021, his Channel 4 documentary series about race, Empire State of Mind, got a four star review in The Guardian from Chitra Ramaswamy.[9]

Personal life

Sanghera lives in North London.[10][2]

Publications
  • The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton.[11] Published by Penguin, 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-102859-0.
  • Marriage Material. Published by Europa Editions, 2016, ISBN 978-1-60945-317-6.
  • EmpireLand: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain. Published by Viking, 2021, ISBN 978-0-241-44529-7.

Awards

See also

References
  1. Saner, Emine (5 November 2017). "Sathnam Sanghera on The Boy with the Topknot: 'Mum cried while she told our story. I cried as I wrote it'". The Observer. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. "Biog". Sathnam Sanghera. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  3. Perkins, Roger, "Loves, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton", The Telegraph, 9 March 2008.
  4. Batt, David, "Sathnam Sanghera: interview", Time Out, 5 March 2008.
  5. "Les asiatiques dans les médias | Mag, news, actu, jeux, let's play en folie avec notre amie l'asiatique !".
  6. "Sathnam Sanghera website".
  7. Onwuemezi, Natasha, "Rankin, McDermid and Levy named new RSL fellows", The Bookseller, 7 June 2017.
  8. "Sathnam Sanghera", The Royal Society of Literature.
  9. "Empire State of Mind review – 'Within moments, I am crying on to my laptop'". the Guardian. 20 November 2021.
  10. O'Hara, Mary (19 August 2009). "Home truths". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  11. O'Hara, Mary (19 August 2009). "Interview: Sathnam Sanghera, author of a candid memoir about mental illness". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  12. "Sikh Author Wins Mind Book of the Year Award", The Langar Hall, 26 May 2009.
  13. Brown, Mark (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
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