About Suhayl Saadi
Suhayl Saadi is a novelist and stage and radio dramatist based in Glasgow. His hallucinatory realist novel, Psychoraag (2004) won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pakistan National Literary Award, was nominated for the Dublin-based Impac Prize and was acclaimed by The List magazine and the Scottish Book Trust as one of the Top 100 Scottish books of all time.
Saadi’s eclectic short story collection, The Burning Mirror (2001) was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Prize. His work has been adapted for stage and screen, he has edited a number of anthologies and has penned song lyrics for modern classical compositions with the Dunedin Consort (The People’s Mass), international choir (Project Paradisum) and with Scottish Opera (5:15). Driven often by music, his work has appeared from Cape Town to Kerala by way of Kiev and from San Diego to Singapore via New York City and Teheran. He has written extensively for the UK national Press, the BBC and the British Council.
Click here to read reviews of Suhayl's writing.
For an interview with Suhayl about Joseph's Box and about his writing at 3AM magazine, click here.
For an interview about Joseph's Box with novelist Doug Johnstone in The List, click here.
For an interview with Suhayl at Kitaab, click on the link.
For an interview on Writers Connect, click here.
For an interview with Suhayl about Joseph's Box at 3AM magazine, click here.
For an interview with Suhayl and an extract from the book at Kitaab, click on the links.
For an interview with The Asian Writer, click here.
For an interview with One magazine, click here.
See Suhayl's entry on the British Council's Contemporary Writers website here.
Suhayl Saadi's links
http://suhaylsaadi.myblogsite.com/