Sheena Patel
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Sheena Patel is a British author and director from London, England. She is part of the collective 4 Brown Girls Who Write[1], with whom she released her first published work, This Is What Love Is, as one of a set of pamphlets in a 2021 collection named after the collective[2]. Her debut novel I'm A Fan[3], published by Rough Trade Books in 2022, won the Discover Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2023[4], and was an Observer Best Debut Novel of 2022[5] as well as being longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction[6] and being shortlisted for a number of other accolades[7][8].
She studied English Literature at Queen Mary University, studying alongside two other writers, Sharan Hunjan and Rosh Goyate, with whom, alongside Sunnah Khan, she formed the 4 Brown Girls Who Write collective in 2017. The collective have performed together at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, before publishing their first collection in 2021[9]. From there, she wrote the novel as a way to explore the extremity into which online parasocial relationships can evolve[10].
Patel has also worked in the film and television industry as an assistant director[11].
Early life
Patel is a second-generation immigrant[12], with a Kenyan Indian father and a Mauritian mother. She was born in north-west London[13], and was a voracious reader from early in life, reading what she describes as a large amount of "inappropriate" materials for her young age[12].
References
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2021-02-26). ""There's A Freedom In Resisting Definition": Meet 4 Writers (And Friends) Doing Poetry Their Way". British Vogue. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ "4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE - Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sheena Patel &". Rough Trade Books. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ Patel, Sheena (2022). I'm a fan (Third ed.). Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar: Rough Trade Books. ISBN 978-1-914236-19-8.
- ↑ Hassan, Beril Naz (2023-05-16). "British Book Awards 2023: Full list of this year's winners". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ Cummins, Anthony; Kenny, Ursula; Anderson, Hephzibah; Ghadiali, Ashish (2022-01-16). "Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2022". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ Passmore, Lynsey (2023-03-07). "Announcing the 2023 Women's Prize longlist!". Women's Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ "2023 Shortlist - Swansea University". www.swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ "2023". Jhalak Prize. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2021-02-26). ""There's A Freedom In Resisting Definition": Meet 4 Writers (And Friends) Doing Poetry Their Way". British Vogue. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ Stephanie (2023-03-15). "Five minutes with Sheena Patel". Women's Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ "C&W Agency". cwagency.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Butter, Susannah (2022-07-14). "I'm A Fan: Author Sheena Patel's stunning debut". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ Patel, Sheena (2023-04-29). "On my radar: Sheena Patel's cultural highlights". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
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