Born 1974
Writer

Artist’s statement

I am a novelist and short-story writer.

I am on the point of finishing my second novel. I want to write more novels experimenting with form and structure. Critics tend to focus on the subject matter employed by Asian novelists, but I think form is just as important. New social and political perspectives will require new forms. I feel that the possibilities the novel offers are infinite, and as yet largely unexplored. This is an exciting time to be a novelist, and an exciting, though difficult, time to be an Asian novelist in Britain.

Selected work

Books

2005 - Tell Tales Volume 2 (Editor)
2001 - Translations – Buchet Chastel (French); Metaixmio (Greek), Prometheus (Dutch)
2000 - In Beautiful Disguises – Bloomsbury (Betty Trask Prize Winner)

Short stories from 2006

All That is Solid – Commission for Radio 4 and Manchester Litfest
India Isn’t There – 'So, What Kept You?' (Flambard)
The Story – 'Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism' (USA)
Larger Than Life – 'Backchat' SALIDAA (recording by BBC World)
The Story – 'Fugue' University of Idaho

Awards

2004 - Clarissa Luard Fiction Award and Arts Council Writers’ Award
2002 - K Blundell Trust Award and Shortlist: Amazon.com 'novel in progress' award
2001 - North West Arts’ Board Positive Action Bursary
2000 - Shortlist: BBC Asian Award and Longlist: Guardian Fiction Prize
1999 - Ian St James Short-Story Prize and Betty Trask Prize

Contact Details

Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Email: rajeev@balasubramanyam.fsnet.co.uk