Second time
in the histr y Manbooker fiction category open award is open for the
writers of all nationalit y . (First time awarded in 1969)This
time criteris is " it should be written originally in
English and published in Britain. Previously, the prize was open only to
authors from Britain and the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe
Auther from Indian origin
Sunjeev Sahota is among the half a dozen authors (Marlon James, Tom Mc
Carthy, Chigozie Obioma , Anne Tyler, Hanya Yanagihara and Sunjeev
Sahota) short-listed for the prestigious 2015 Man Booker Prize for
Fiction. His book The year of the
Runways is well acclaimed among the critics. This book is based on illegal
immigrants in Britain, thought this novel is in fiction
category but the auther does not have any problem to term
this novel as a political novel. He said my main wish was to write a novel that
felt alive and might ethernal the reader.
Sahota, also awarded Granta Best
Young British Novelist 2013, competes with fellow Briton Tom McCarthy( she
is also shortlisted for man booker 2015), Jamaican Marlon James, US-based Anne
Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara and Nigerian Chigozie Obioma for his
second book "The Year of the Runaways" which deals with the
experience of illegal immigrants from the Indian subcontinent in Britain.
The six names were announced by chair of
the judges, Michael Wood, at a press conference at the offices of sponsor Man
Group
Sahota, a
third-generation British-Indian born in 1981. His debut novel
"Ours Are the Streets" in 2011, which is based on British
Pakistani youth who becomes a suicide bomber. (published in January 2011 by Picador. He wrote the book in the evenings and at weekends
because of his day job. Sahota was prompted to start writing the book by the 7 July 2005 London
bombings.)
Sahota is Punjabi community, they are jat clan , Sunjeev
Sahota's grandparent emigrated from Punjab to UK in 1966.
His parents were in Derby when Sunjeev born( in 1981), after 7 years his
parents moved to Chesterfield. Afer finshing his school he studied
mathematics in Imperial College of London. As of 2011 he was working
with an insurance company in marketing.
Sahota had not read a novel until he was 18 years old, when he read Salman
Rushdie's Midnight's Children,
become highly inspired and felt motivated,
After Midnight's Children,
Sahota went on to read The God of
Small Things, A Suitable Boy and The Remains of the Day. Among all Man booker winning
novel his favorite novel is“The Line of Beauty”
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