Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal
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Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal was born in Greenford in 1974. His parents were first- (mother) and second- (father) generation Punjabi immigrants. Dhaliwal was raised a non-practising Sikh and state-school educated before going on to Nottingham University to read English and American literature. In 2000, while working as a radio journalist for the BBC he was sent to interview Liz Jones the then editor of Marie Claire. The two married in 2002. Jones became a columnist for the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday and wrote extensively about her and husband Dhaliwal's relationship. Many of Jones' references to Dhaliwal centred on him "moping at home 'writing a novel'".[1] That novel turned out to be Dhaliwal's first novel Tourism. Tourism received mixed reviews, Sam Leith of the Daily Telegraph slammed the effort as "callow, derivative and not very well written."[2] The Asian Review of Books hailed Tourism as "brilliant and... outrageously provocative."[3]
Dhaliwal currently works as a freelance journalist based in London. He writes for The Times, the Guardian and the Evening Standard
[edit] Works
- Tourism (2006)