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Sunjeev Sahota

Sunjeev Sahota

How to pronounce Sunjeev Sahota: SUHN-jeev suh-HO-tuh

Sunjeev Sahota Biography

Sunjeev Sahota is the author of Ours Are the Streets and The Year of the Runaways, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature. In 2013, he was named one of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Novelists of the decade. He lives in Sheffield, England, with his family.



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    The Fortunes
    by Peter Ho Davies

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