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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. 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 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 press, writing humour columns, investigative features, and reviewing artists ranging from Toni Morrison to Take That.
She has been published in anthologies and books including From There to Here, Roads Ahead, and The Book Club Bible and she is currently working on a novel and short stories.
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, Ideas Festival Bristol, among others.
She was born in Manchester and read English at Cambridge University
Her 2012 blog can be found here.
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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.
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May/June 2012: International Writer-in-Residence in Melbourne, Australia
BBC Travel: Along Arabia's East Coast
Travel: Adventures in Singapore
Travel: "The Thinking Traveller's delight"
Observer review: "Granta: Exit Stategies"
New Statesman review: "Narcopolis" by Jeet Thayil
Reportage: Dispatches from Iraq
Guardian Music: Article on Sufi music
Guardian Film: on the Viva Spanish & Latin American film festival
Guardian Travel: eco-adventures in the Blue Mountains
Arts: Contemporary troubadors: on writing & music
Interviews published with: Ian Rankin, Ben Okri, Javier Cercas, Shashi Tharoor
Books: Reviews of Horace McCoy, Susan Hill, Leila Aboulela
Blog: Winner of Dialogue Festival blogging award
May/June: Writer-in-Residence / Ambassador, Melbourne, Australia
Emerging Writers Festival / Wheeler Centre
May: Chairing event with Elif Shafak at Ideas Festival, Bristol
April: Bocas Lit Fest / British Council CALAG project
April: Speaking at 'English, Innit' event at Rich Mix
APRIL 14/15: Chairing events at Cambridge Wordfest
April 4: Chairing Southbank Centre Book Club
March: Chairing events at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
for previous events please click here
I'm heading to Trinidad & Tobago this month to participate in the Bocas Lit Fest and CALAG project, as well as visiting Guyana, South America. I'm then travelling to Melbourne, Australia to be International Writer-in-Residence / Ambassador at the Emerging Writers Festival in May/June during which I'll be appearing at the Wheeler Centre and on ABC National Radio.
I'm chairing events with Sandy Gall at the Cambridge Wordfest, Elif Shafak at the Observer Ideas Festival Bristol, and the Southbank Centre Book Club on Peter Carey.
I'll be appearing on various Australian radio and tv programmes and have appeared on BBC World Service's The Strand and World Today programmes as cultural and current affairs commentator/panellist and my film review of Trishna is broadcast on The Strand
I've written travel dispatches, reviewed books and films for various national newspapers & magazines, and resumed my role as literary blogger for the Southbank Centre.
I'm also currently completing work on my own book projects - watch this space!
* ABC Radio - Australia's national radio / 24 May 11am - The Conversation Hour
* The Strand, BBC World Service - film review (upcoming, March 2012)
* 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)
* Arguing in favour of libraries (BBC Radio 5 Live)
* Debating representation of history in culture
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