Search Results - Anita Sethi

Anita Sethi

Anita Sethi is a British journalist and writer.

Sethi was born in Manchester, England. She has written for ''The Guardian,'' ''The Observer,'' ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Independent'', the ''New Statesman'', ''Granta'', and ''The Times Literary Supplement''. In broadcasting, she has appeared as a critic, commentator and presenter on several BBC programmes and is a regular speaker and chair at festivals in the UK and internationally. She has been published in anthologies including 'The Wild Isles', 'Women on Nature', and 'Way Makers'. She was an International Writer in Residence at the Emerging Writers' Festival in Melbourne, Australia. She has been a Judge of the Women's Prize for Fiction, British Book Awards, and Costa Book Awards.

Sethi is the author of the memoir ''I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain'', published in 2021. In 2021, ''I Belong Here'' was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize in the Nature Writing category and won a Books Are My Bag Award. It was also nominated for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize 2022 for an outstanding work that 'evokes the spirit of a place'. Provided by Wikipedia