Fiction
a novel set in Kolkata/Calcutta.
Phoenix House UK & Penguin India, 1998.
Phoenix House UK & Penguin India, 1998.
History
Representations
of
India, 1740 - 1840: the creation of India in the
colonial imagination
Macmillan UK & St Martin's Press USA, 1998.
Macmillan UK & St Martin's Press USA, 1998.
On Creative Writing
editor & contributorCreative Writing: Writers on Writing,
original writing and reflective essays about the process of creation
by Jane Draycott, Kathryn Heyman, Sabyn Jillani, Emily Raboteau, Brian Chikwava, Fred D'Aguiar, Philip Gross, Amal Chatterjee.
Creative Writing Studies, UK (forthcoming/2012).
Short Fiction (selected)
"Seven times three", in Algebra, the online magazine of the Tramway Theatre, Glasgow, August 2011.
"Raymond", TimeOut Amsterdam, 2008.
"Destiny", excerpt from a novel-in-progress, Nirvanas, in the bookzine Atlas:01, 2006.
"Birth", for "The Perforated Spirit: Three Eerie Tales" (collaboration with Bill Broady & Paul Houghton), Ilkley Literature Festival, 2000.
"Raymond", TimeOut Amsterdam, 2008.
"Destiny", excerpt from a novel-in-progress, Nirvanas, in the bookzine Atlas:01, 2006.
"Birth", for "The Perforated Spirit: Three Eerie Tales" (collaboration with Bill Broady & Paul Houghton), Ilkley Literature Festival, 2000.
Film
Member of the story team for the
Amsterdam 48 hour film project, Sense of Direction, in 2007.
Book Reviews
Book reviewer, Trouw, the Dutch newspaper (in Dutch, search here).
Since 2009.
Subjects include Patrick French's biography of V S Naipaul, Contemporary British Writing, Pakistani Writing in English and Booker Prize shortlists.
Subjects include Patrick French's biography of V S Naipaul, Contemporary British Writing, Pakistani Writing in English and Booker Prize shortlists.
Awards
Creative
Scotland Awards, shortlist, 2001.
Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary, 1998.
Crossword (India) Best Novel Award, shortlist, 1998.
Writer-in-Residence at the Ilkley Literature Festival, UK, 2000.
Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary, 1998.
Crossword (India) Best Novel Award, shortlist, 1998.
Residencies
Writer in residence, Shanghai Writers Association, China, Sept-Oct 2011.Writer-in-Residence at the Ilkley Literature Festival, UK, 2000.
Literary Festival Advisory
Adviser, Writers Unlimited (formerly Winternnachten), Literary Festival of the city
of the Hague, the Netherlands, since 2010.Creative Writing Teaching
- Tutor, Fiction, University of Oxford (UK), Master
of Studies (MSt)
in Creative Writing (since 2006)
- Tutor, Creative Writing. Online courses, University of Oxford
(UK), Getting
Started with Creative Writing (since 2009)
- Organiser and Fiction Tutor, Amsterdam
Creative
Writing Weekends (since 2009)
- Fiction Tutor, Zurich
Writing Workshops (2010)
Other teaching
(selected)
- Trainer, Academic Writing, Writing for Publication, Lecturing in
English for the Taalcentrum, Vrije Universiteit (Free
University) Amsterdam; the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
(University of Amsterdam); Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, and at other institutions in the
Netherlands and Europe. Since 2007.
- Freelance language consultant & trainer (since 2007, see tomali languages for details)
- Lecturer, English, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 2001 - 2006.
- Lecturer, English, Hogeschool Inholland, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2001 - 2002.
- Tutor, English as a Foreign Language, University of Glasgow, UK 1990 - 2001.
- Tutor to Testamur, Dept. of Applied Linguistics, University of Exeter, UK, 1993 - 1994.
- Lecturer,
ESOL & Communication, Langside College, Glasgow, UK, 1990 -
1992.
Articles in the Media (selected)
- Occcasional articles, Departures, travel magazine (USA)
- "Break
down the door", on UK immigration
policy, Product,
Edinburgh, UK, August 2000
- "Men one cannot do business with", on representations of Saddam Hussein and Tipu Sultan, The Independent, London, UK, June 1998.
- (mentioned previously), book reviews in Trouw (here)
Education
- BA (Hons), English Honours, St Xavier's College, Kolkata, India.
- MA, University of Kent at Canterbury, England (thesis: Four Worlds of Rudyard Kipling).
- MLitt, University
of Glasgow, Scotland (thesis: Representations
of India: 1740
- 1840).