Susheila Nasta

Literary Activist, writer and presenter, Susheila Nasta has published widely on postcolonial and contemporary writing. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing. She is also a professor of Contemporary and Modern Literatures at Queen Mary, University of London and Professor Emeritus at the Open University.

Susheila is director of many research and public engagement projects and also a leading critic and postcolonial scholar. Her books include: Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain (2002), Writinf Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk (2004), India in Britain (2012) and Asian Britain: A Photographic History (2013). Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now(Myriad Books) is an essay collection highlighting the significance of the written work in current times and marking Wasafiri’s 35th anniversary.

Susheila also co-edited the first Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing and is now finishing a biography entitled The Bloomsbury Indians. She received an MBE in 2011 for her services to black and Asian literature, and in 2019 was elected Honorary Fellow by the Royal Society of Literature. She also received the prestigious Benson Medal for exceptional contributions to the advancement of literature.

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