WritersMosaic: Remember Me
WritersMosaic and Colin Grant will be joined by three award-winning authors: Chitra Ramaswamy, Ingrid Persaud, and Nicholas Rankin. Discussing the idea of memory and writing..
About the Chair
Colin Grant
Colin Grant’s books include Bageye at the Wheel, short-listed for the Pen Ackerley Prize, and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation. He is the director of WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, and writes for the Guardian, Observer and New York Review of Books. His latest memoir is I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be.
About the Authors
Chitra Ramaswamy
Chitra Ramaswamy is an author and journalist. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a German Jewish refugee and Holocaust survivor called Henry Wuga. It won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included in The Guardian’s top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize, and was reissued in spring 2024. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi:ble, and Message from the Skies and produced a book of micro-essays, Rich Things, for the Alasdair Gray Archive. She writes for The Guardian, is the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, broadcasts for BBC radio, and is currently working on her third book. She is from London and lives in Edinburgh.
Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud’s debut novel, Love After Love, set in Trinidad, won the Costa First Novel award, the Author’s Club First Book Award and the Indie Book Award for Fiction. Other prizes include the BBC National Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her new novel The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh was published in April 2024. Ingrid was born in Trinidad and lives in London.
Nicholas Rankin
Born in 1950, Nicholas Rankin grew up in Kenya and was educated in England. He spent 20 years at BBC World Service, eventually becoming Chief Producer. Rankin is the author of several acclaimed books, including Dead Man’s Chest, Churchill’s Wizards, and Ian Fleming’s Commandos. He is married to novelist Maggie Gee and father to novelist Rosa Rankin-Gee.
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