St. John's College, Cambridge University; City University; Royal Holloway University, London
Occupation(s)
Writer, screenwriter and educator
Notable work
We That Are Young (2017)
Awards
Desmond Elliott Prize
Gordon Burn Prize
Preti Taneja FRSL is a British writer, screenwriter and educator. She is currently professor of world literature and creative writing at Newcastle University. Her first novel, We That Are Young, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was shortlisted for several awards, including the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Prix Jan Michalski, and the Shakti Bhatt Prize. In 2005, a film she co-wrote was shortlisted for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Taneja's second book, Aftermath, is an account of the 2019 London Bridge terror attack, and describes her knowledge of the victims, as well as her experience having previously taught the perpetrator of the attacks in a prison education programme. It won the Gordon Burn Prize for 2022.[1]
^Knight, Lucy (13 October 2022). "2022 Gordon Burn prize awarded to London Bridge terror attack examination, Aftermath". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
PretiTaneja FRSL is a British writer, screenwriter and educator. She is currently professor of world literature and creative writing at Newcastle University...
clan, include: Ishika Taneja, Miss India 2017–2018 Namish Taneja, Indian television actor PretiTaneja, British writer Shweta Taneja, Indian novelist, graphic...
Aftermath, a 2013 novel by Rhidian Brook Aftermath, a 2021 novel by PretiTaneja Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, a 2012 memoir by Rachel Cusk Aftermath:...
October 2022. Khanna, Aditi (20 October 2022). "British Indian author PretiTaneja bags Gordon Burn Prize for 'Aftermath' on 2019 London Bridge terror attack"...
2017 Michael Symmons Roberts 2014 George Szirtes 1982 Bryan Talbot 2018 PretiTaneja 2023 D. J. Taylor 1997 Joelle Taylor 2022 Sara Taylor 2018 Kae Tempest...
ISBN 978-0-520-25729-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) PretiTaneja, Minority Rights Group International (2007). Assimilation, exodus, eradication:...
Shanbhag for subtlety conveying the troubled "gender dynamic" in India. PretiTaneja of the New Statesman took note of the book's feminist themes and wrote...
Place by Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson (William Collins) Aftermath by PretiTaneja (And Other Stories) A Pocketful of Happiness written and narrated by...
Bread & Roses". Shelf Awareness. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2022. "PretiTaneja Wins 2018 Desmond Elliot Prize for "Awe-Inspiring" We That Are Young"...
149 (5514): 52. Taneja, Preti; McWatt, Tessa (22 October 2020). "SHAME ON ME: Professor Tessa McWatt in Conversation with Dr PretiTaneja". Feminist Review...
Myers-Smith Languages and Literatures: Joanna Allan, Josie Gill, Joseph Hone, PretiTaneja, Sam Wolfe In 2021 the prizes were awarded in the following fields: Classics:...
August 2022. "Reviewed in Short: New books from Ramon Pacheco Pardo, PretiTaneja, Leo Damrosch and Hanna Bervoets". New Statesman. Retrieved 17 August...
adaptation of King Lear titled The Queens of Innis Lear with Tor Books. PretiTaneja’s 2018 novel We That Are Young is based on King Lear and set in India...
Lefebvre, Blue Self-Portrait, translated by Sophie Lewis (Les Fugitives) PretiTaneja, We That Are Young (Galley Beggar Press) Isabel Waidner, Gaudy Bauble...
(Ireland) for "Swallow" The 2022 judges were Marina Salandy-Brown (Chair), PretiTaneja (Fiction), Mary Jean Chan (Poetry), and Francesca Wade (Life Writing)...
com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-20. Retrieved 2010-11-15. PretiTaneja (2007). "Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq's minority communities...
"Kurdish Academy of Language | enables the Kurdish language in new". Taneja, Preti (2011). "Iraq's Minorities: Participation in Public Life" (PDF). Minority...
killed and tortured in Iraq, the country of mass graves. pp. 489–492. Taneja, Preti. "Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq's minority communities since...
Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2015-10-12. Taneja, Preti (2007). Assimilation, exodus, eradication: Iraq's minority communities...
in Iraq. Cornell University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-8014-4452-4. Taneja, Preti (2007). Assimilation, exodus, eradication: Iraq's minority communities...
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