Indian-origin author Sunjeev Sahota shortlisted for Man Booker fiction

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Second time in the histry  Manbooker fiction category open award is open for the writers of all nationality. (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 McCarthyshe 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 ThingsA 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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