Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja is a writer and activist. Her first novel, We That Are Young (Galley Beggar Press/Knopf), won the Desmond Elliott Prize for the UK’s best debut of the year and was listed for international awards including the Folio Prize, the Prix Jan Michalski, and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. It was a Top 10 literary fiction book of the year in The Sunday Times and others, and has been translated into several languages.
Her second book Aftermath, (Transit/ And Other Stories) is an abolitionists' lament against terror, trauma and the UK's school to prison pipeline, and has been critically acclaimed in the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New Yorker. She is a Contributing Editor at The White Review, and Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK.
