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Anita Sethi was born in Manchester, UK and is an award-winning writer and author of the acclaimed book I Belong Here: a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain which won a Books Are My Bag award, and was nominated for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing, the Great Outdoors Award and Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for writing evoking a strong sense of place. I Belong Here was praised as a “thing of beauty” by the Sunday Times, “a memoir of rare power” by the Guardian, and “an amazing odyssey: inspiring, powerful, encouraging and incredibly brave” by the Independent. It was selected as Stanfords Book of the Month, chosen as a Hottest Book of the Year by the Guardian and one of the best travel books by Wanderlust and the Telegraph. It was selected as the Best Travelogue of the Year by the Independent.
She has also been published in the anthologies Women on Nature edited by Katharine Norbury, The Wild Isles, Common People, the Seasons nature writing anthology, Seaside Special: Postcards from the Edge, We Mark Your Memory and Solstice Shorts among others.
She has written columns, features and reviews for newspapers and magazines including the Guardian and Observer, the i paper, Independent, Sunday Times, Telegraph, FT, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC Wildlife, Vogue, New Statesman, Granta, Harpers Bazaar, Times Literary Supplement, Stylist and BBC Travel among others. In broadcasting she has appeared on several channels including BBC Radios 2, 3, 4 and 5, the BBC World Service, ITV, Times Radio, Sky News, and ABC Australia. Programmes she has written for, presented for or appeared as a speaker/panellist on include The Essay, Front Row, The Today Programme, The Verb, The Midnight Debate and more.
She has appeared as a speaker at many venues including Southbank Centre, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Latitude Festival, Green Man Festival, Manchester Literature Festival, Ideas Festival, the British Library, Foyles, Daunts and other bookshops. She has participated in festivals around the world including in Trinidad & Tobago, Kerala, Nairobi, the Maldives and Melbourne, Australia, where she was an International Writer in Residence and Ambassador for Journalism at the Emerging Writers Festival and a writing fellow at the Wheeler Centre of Books, Writing and Ideas.
She has been a Judge of the Women’s Prize, British Book Awards, Costa Book Awards, Society of Authors Awards, and is an Academician in the Folio Academy of the Rathbones Folio Prize.
She has interviewed leading writers, musicians, artists, politicians and public figures including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Billy Bragg, Louis de Bernieres, Anne Michaels, Ian Rankin, Paul Theroux, Tracey Thorn, Michael Nyman, Antonio Carluccio and Harriet Harman and has worked as a columnist, critic and feature writer. Her career highlights including going birdwatching with Margaret Atwood in the UK’s oldest nature reserve.
She has a BA and MA Honours in English from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Writer-in-Residence at the Manchester Museum.
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