Author: Anita Sethi
Adventures in Edinburgh
From the BBC
My dispatch from the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago aired on the BBC World Service, May 2012
International Writer-in-Residence & Ambassador, Melbourne
I’ve been invited to be the 2012 International Writer in Residence and Ambassador at the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne, Australia!
Speaking at Snapshots Festival 2012
Chairing Southbank Centre Book Club
CHAIRING: SOUTHBANK CENTRE BOOK CLUB
I’m looking forward to chairing the Southbank Centre Book Club on 23rd November 2011 about The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund du Waal. It’s a fantastic book so if you haven’t read it yet, I’d recommend doing so and coming along to the Sunley Pavilion at 6:30pm in a few weeks time…
Chairing event at Manchester Literature Festival
I’m delighted to be returning to my hometown to chair an event at the wonderful Manchester Literature Festival with Kishwar Desai and Moni Mohsin on Sunday 16th October, 2:30pm, Manchester Town Hall.
Hope to see some of you there!
Appearances: DSC South Asian Literature Festival
EVENTS: DSC SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL
I’m looking forward to appearing at the following events:
‘Travelling Tales: Looking Out, Looking In’
15th October, 4.00pm, Free Word Centre, Farringdon
and ‘The Dancing Girls of Bombay: What price for women’s rights?’
19th October, 6.30pm, The Women’s Library, Aldgate
Appearing at ‘Tagore: Lost (and Found) in Translation’
20th October, 7.00pm, London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury
Writing
WRITING
I’ve had a variety of articles published in the past few weeks including: a travel feature on Singapore in The National, a feature on “journeys with treasured objects” in Psychologies Magazine, an interview with Ben Okri in The National, and book reviews of “Noon” by Aatish Taseer, “Beautiful Thing” by Sonia Faleiro, and “The Sly Company of People Who Care” by Rahul Bhattacharya in The Independent.
Anita Sethi – journalist & writer
Please see my website www.anitasethi.co.uk for more information. Thank you!
I’m a journalist and writer, who has worked as a regular contributor to the Guardian, Observer, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Independent and Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement and BBC among others.
In broadcasting I have appeared as a regular panellist and commentator on shows including the Richard Bacon Show, Simon Mayo Show, Up All Night and the World Today.
My fiction, reportage and poetry have been published in a range of anthologies and I am recipient of a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, Penguin/decibel Prize, and Arts Council writing award.
Anita Sethi 