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Anita Sethi is an award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster who has written for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Independent, Independent on Sunday, New Statesman, Granta,  Times Literary Supplement, and BBC, among others. In broadcasting she has appeared as a guest panellist and commentator on shows including the BBC's Richard Bacon Show, Simon Mayo Show, The Strand, the World Today, and Up All Night.

She has written dispatches from around the world including the Baluchestan desert, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, South America, Kenya, South Africa, Asia, the United States, and the Great Outback.  She was awarded a Travelling Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and more of her travel writing can be found here.  

She has interviewed leading figures in culture and politics including Paddy Ashdown, Jonathan Dimbleby, and Eartha Kitt and worked as a columnist, critic and feature writer across the national media, writing humour columns, investigative features, and reviewing artists ranging from Toni Morrison to Take That.

Her travel reportage, fiction, criticism and poetry have been published in anthologies and books including From There to Here, Roads Ahead, The Book Club Bible, and she is working on a novel.  

She is recipient of a Penguin/decibel prize, Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, Arts Council writing award, and Dialogue Festival blogging award.

She has appeared at the Hay Festival, Oxfam Bookfest, Southbank Centre, Jonathan Cape Poetry Day, Manchester Literature Festival, DSC South Asian Literature Festival among others. She is a guest writer/blogger for Literature at the Southbank Centre.

 Anita was born in Manchester and read English at Cambridge University.

Anita Sethi is an award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster who has written for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Independent, Independent on Sunday, New Statesman, Granta,  Times Literary Supplement, and BBC, among others. In broadcasting she has appeared as a guest panellist and commentator on shows including the BBC's Richard Bacon Show, Simon Mayo Show, The Strand, the World Today, and Up All Night.

She has written dispatches from around the world including the Baluchestan desert, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, South America, Kenya, South Africa, Asia, the United States, and the Great Outback.  She was awarded a Travelling Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and more of her travel writing can be found here.  

She has interviewed leading figures in culture and politics including Paddy Ashdown, Jonathan Dimbleby, and Eartha Kitt and worked as a columnist, critic and feature writer across the national media, writing humour columns, investigative features, and reviewing artists ranging from Toni Morrison to Take That.

Her travel reportage, fiction, criticism and poetry have been published in anthologies and books including From There to Here, Roads Ahead, and The Book Club Bible.  

She is recipient of a Penguin/decibel prize, Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, Arts Council writing award, and Dialogue Festival blogging award.

She has appeared at the Hay Festival, Oxfam Bookfest, Southbank Centre, Jonathan Cape Poetry Day, Manchester Literature Festival, DSC South Asian Literature Festival among others. She has written guest blogs for Literature at the Southbank Centre.

She was born in Manchester and read English at Cambridge University (BA Hons, MA)

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WRITING 

BBC Travel: Along Arabia's East Coast
Blog: Winner of Dialogue Festival blogging award
Travel: Adventures in Singapore
Comment: Twitter brings a #HappyDiwali to all
Travel: "The Thinking Traveller's delight"
Reportage: Dispatches from Iraq
 Music: Article on Sufi music
Film:  on the Viva Spanish & Latin American film festival
Travel: eco-adventures in the Blue Mountains
Arts: Contemporary troubadors: on writing & music
Interviews published with: Ian Rankin, Ben Okri, Javier Cercas
Books: Reviews of Horace McCoy, Susan Hill, Leila Aboulela

APPEARANCES / EVENTS  
FEB/MARCH 2012: Southbank Book Club: Nadine Gordimer/Kate Grenville
DECEMBER: Ideas Festival: Chairing events - Iain Sinclair & Pauline Black
NOVEMBER: Chairing "Dark and Deep" event, Southbank Centre
NOVEMBER: Chairing Southbank Centre Book Club: "The Hare With Amber Eyes"
NOVEMBER: Chairing event: Shashi Tharoor at Sharjah International Book Fair
Lecture in Department of English, Sharjah University
NOVEMBER: Dialogue Festival: Pecha Kucha presentation
OCTOBER: Chairing event at Manchester Literature Festival
OCTOBER: Appearing at DSC South Asian Literature Festival
Travelling Tales  / What price for women's rights?
The Worlds I Inhabit: The City and the Storyteller
Summer 2011: English PEN writing roadshow 
For previous events click here

 
BROADCASTING 

* Guest panellist on the World Today, BBC World Service (07/01/12)
* Appearing on The Strand, the BBC World Service (21/12/11)
* Guest book critic debating the Booker Prize (BBC R5 Live, October 2011)
* Guest books panellist & co-presenter (BBC R5 Live)

* Arguing in favour of libraries (BBC Radio 5 Live)
* Debating representation of history in culture 

TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP
Adventures in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Antipodes, South America

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