‘I like it when fiction respects the reality that no one truly knows anyone else’
Sunjeev Sahota
Sunjeev Sahota is the author of Ours Are the Streets and The Year of the Runaways, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015
The Year of the Runaways was also shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won the Encore Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award. Sahota was chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. He lives in Sheffield.
I do try to withhold as much as possible, to both clear a space in which ideas and feelings can be perceived and not asserted
All nominated books
Punjab, 1929: a bride marries a man she is not allowed to see. Curiosity grows, with far-reaching consequences in Sunjeev Sahota’s absorbing novel
Sunjeev Sahota's brilliant political novel explores the dreams and struggles of an unlikely household in a warm celebration of the human spirit
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