Deepa Anappara grew up in Kerala, southern India, and worked as a
journalist in cities including Mumbai and Delhi. Her reports on the
impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of
children won the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the Every Human
has Rights Media Awards, and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship
in Journalism. A partial of her debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the
Purple Line, won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, the
Bridport/Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and the Deborah Rogers
Foundation Writers Award. Published in 2020, it has since been
named as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times,
Washington Post, Time and NPR. It won the Edgar Award for Best
Novel, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and
shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Indian Literature. Deepa has an
MA in Creative Writing and is currently studying for a PhD.
Taymour Soomro was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He read law at
Cambridge University and Stanford Law School. He has worked as a
corporate solicitor in New York and Milan, a law lecturer at a
university in Karachi, an agricultural estate manager in rural
Pakistan and a publicist for a luxury fashion brand in London.
Soomro has an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative and
Critical Writing. He has written extensively for the Pakistani news
media. His short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The
Southern Review and Ninth Letter. His debut novel, Other Names for
Love, will be published by Harvill Secker in 2022.
A whip-smart collection of essays. I read parts of it with the joy
of recognition and other parts with the astonishment of
revelation
*Kamila Shamsie*
Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the
periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once
*Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens*
Letters to a Writer of Colour is full of wisdom, nuance and
elegance. It stretches discourses around "colour" and invites us to
think more deeply and broadly about these questions. It is
essential reading in a world full of soundbites and furious
noise
*Tash Aw*
The problem of the color line, as WEB Du Bois called it, has
existed in literature and literary criticism as much as social and
geopolitical realms, and systematic neglect by publishers, critics
and readers has only exacerbated it. Excavating long-buried
experiences of rejection, incomprehension and misunderstanding,
Letters to a Writer of Colour defines the problem with precision
and passion, and also outlines ways to transcend it. No one
interested in how we read and should read fiction can afford to
miss this bracing and moving anthology
*Pankaj Mishra*
I knew I would love this book as soon as I laid eyes on the title
and the list of contributors, and it didn't disappoint - far from
it. These essays provide so much wisdom and warmth, giving us a
sense of restoration, of community. They take a refreshingly
holistic view of the craft and balance real technical insight with
deeply gentle humanity. I cannot wait for my students to read this
book!
*Okechukwu Nzelu, author of Here Again Now*
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