WE THAT ARE YOUNG is the award winning debut novel by PRETI TANEJA
It is published by the visionary GALLEY BEGGAR PRESS in the UK
and by the most radical and legendary publishers and editors around the world.
WE THAT ARE YOUNG was Amazon book of the month in August 2018, a top 10 Book of the Year in The Sunday Times, Book of the year in the Guardian, the Spectator, The Hindu, and a top 10 Literary Fiction Book of the Year in Library Journal. It is being made into a major international TV series by Gaumont US.
'Powerful, engrossing... perfectly constructed, magnificently written.'
- Jim Crace, Author of HARVEST, Chair of judges, the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018
Read about the book's journey to publication here
Before becoming a writer Preti worked with disadvantaged young people across the UK for HEADLINERS; she also teaches writing in prisons for LEARNING TOGETHER with Jesus College, Cambridge Universty.
She is a Contributing Editor for the multi-award winning independent press
AND OTHER STORIES.
As a Leverhulme Early Career Reseach Fellow at Warwick University she researches cultural rights in conflict-affected zones. As an AHRC/ BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker she broadcasts for Radio 3 and 4 on world literature and culture.
With Ben Crowe she co-founded ERA Films, a collective working on issues as diverse as Iraq’s refugee crisis, in Rwanda with survivors of the genocide and with women in slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya and on major interactive multimedia documentaries including on migrant workers' rights.
With Kristen Harrison of THE CURVED HOUSE, Preti co founded and edits VISUAL VERSE, the anthology of art and words, bringing the freshest new writing from around the world to a global audience.
Preti's novella, KUMKUM MALHOTRA won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize in 2014. The novella was published in 2015 and was made into a promenade theatre piece for Norwich Festival and the Free Word Centre in 2018.
2019
In 2019, Preti is a judge for the inaugural ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
She will also be doing a very few public readings, classes and events....
Mar 1-7: ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK, Australia
Mar 20-26: WIR, DIE WIR JUNG SIND, Germany/Switzerland
CH BECK presents WE THAT ARE YOUNG, trans. Claudia Wenner.
Preti is guest writer at Liepzig Book Festival, at the prestigious Lit.Cologne and for one very special evening at the historic Kaufleuten, Zurich. Details here
May 25: WORD FACTORY MASTERCLASS: FINDING YOUR VOICE, London
As part of 'The Winning Streak' series of events, tickets here
... in MAY Preti will be the UNESCO Fellow in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, giving masterclasses, readings and leading workshop sessions
AUGUST 30: PRIMADONNA FEST, SUFFOLK
... and, she will deliver several keynote talks:
APRIL 20: FRAMES OF REPRESENTATION AT THE ICA tickets here
Aesthetics as advocacy in 'We That Are Young' and ‘other’ Shakespeares in translation
JUNE 8: THE ORWELL FOUNDATION, the RSA & THE FUTURE OF WORK
Four short story writers imagine automation and the future of work
JULY 7-9: Translation Summer School, Warwick University
Shakespeare in the conflict zone: culture and 'universal' human rights
JULY 17-20: British Shakespeare Association, Swansea University
Shakespeare, race, gender and nation: who is that can tell me who I am?
image by Rory O' Bryen