Preti Taneja

Preti Taneja's novel We That Are Young won the UK's Desmond Elliott Prize for the finest literary debut of the year, and was listed for international awards including the Folio Prize, the Prix Jan Michalski, and the Shakti Bhatt Prize. It has been translated into several languages. Aftermath won the Gordon Burn Prize, and was shortlisted for a British Book Award. It was a New Yorker Book of the Year. In 2022 Preti Taneja was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures. She is a Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.