Anita Sethi

Anita Sethi is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster who has written for national and international publications including the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, Independent and Times Literary Supplement and appeared as a guest commentator and critic on several programmes on the BBC, and ABC Australia among others. She is recipient of a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, Penguin/decibel Prize and Arts Council writing award and has appeared at festivals and events around the world including at London’s Southbank Centre, Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre of Books, Writing and Ideas, and at Edinburgh International Book Festival. She was the 2012 International Writer-in-Residence and Ambassador at the Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne, Australia. She has been published in several anthologies and is currently completing a novel.

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