Sathnam Sanghera

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Sathnam Sanghera (born Wolverhampton, 1976) is an award-winning journalist and author.

Early life and education

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976.[1] His parents had emigrated to the UK in 1968.[2][3] He was raised as a Sikh.[4] At the age of ten he worked part-time in a sewing factory.[5] He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.[6]

Career

Before becoming a writer Sathnam worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York.[7] As a student he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE TV.[8] Between 1998 and 2006 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.[9]

He joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007.[10] He also writes for Management Today magazine.[11]

Publications

  • "The Boy With The Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton". Published by Penguin, 2008.

Awards

  • Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards, 2002.[12]
  • Article of the Year in the 2005 Management Today Writing Awards.[13]
  • Newspaper Feature of the Year, Workworld Media Awards.[14]
  • Journalist of the Year, Watson Wyatt Awards, 2006 and 2009.[15]
  • Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, 2009
  • Shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2009.[16]
  • Winner, Mind Book of the Year, 2009.[17]
  • Honorary Doctor of Letters for services to journalism, University of Wolverhampton, September 2009.[18]
  • President's Medal, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010.[19]
  • Costa Book Awards (First Novel) shortlisted for Marriage Material[20]

Personal life

He is single and lives in North London.[21][22]

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  2. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/3671726/Loves-secrets-and-lies-in-Wolverhampton.html
  3. ↑ http://www.timeout.com/london/books/features/4369/Sathnam_Sanghera-interview.html
  4. ↑ http://www.timeout.com/london/books/features/4369/Sathnam_Sanghera-interview.html
  5. ↑ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3389784.ece
  6. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  7. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  8. ↑ http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/music/1726
  9. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  10. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  11. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  12. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  13. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  14. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  15. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  16. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  17. ↑ http://thelangarhall.com/health/sikh-author-wins-mind-book-of-the-year-award/
  18. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  19. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
  20. ↑ Mark Brown (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2013. 
  21. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/19/interview-sathnam-sanghera-mental-illness,
  22. ↑ http://www.sathnam.com/Biog/
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