Background
Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Sathnam Sanghera
Edit ProfileEducation
He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and graduated from Christ"s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.
Career
At the age of ten he worked part-time in a sewing factory. Before becoming a writer Sathnam worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New New York As a student he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE television Between 1998 and 2006 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.
He joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007.
He also writes for Management Today magazine. He is single and lives in North London.
Achievements
-
Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press, 2002. Article of the Year in the 2005 Management Today Writing Newspaper Feature of the Year, Workworld Media Journalist of the Year, Watson Wyatt, 2006 and 2009. Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, 2009 Shortlisted for the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Ackerley Prize, 2009. Winner, Mind Book of the Year, 2009. Honorary Doctor of Letters for services to journalism, University of Wolverhampton, September 2009. President"s Medal, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010. Costa Book (First Novel) shortlisted for Marriage Material.
-
Born
Education
Awards
-
Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press , 2002. Article of the Year in the 2005 Management Today Writing Newspaper Feature of the Year, Workworld Media Journalist of the Year, Watson Wyatt , 2006 and 2009. Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, 2009 Shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2009. Winner, Mind Book of the Year, 2009. Honorary Doctor of Letters for services to journalism, University of Wolverhampton, September 2009. President's Medal, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010. Costa Book (First Novel) shortlisted for Marriage MaterialYoung Journalist of the Year at the British Press , 2002. Article of the Year in the 2005 Management Today Writing Newspaper Feature of the Year, Workworld Media Journalist of the Year, Watson Wyatt , 2006 and 2009. Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, 2009 Shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2009. Winner, Mind Book of the Year, 2009. Honorary Doctor of Letters for services to journalism, University of Wolverhampton, September 2009. President's Medal, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010. Costa Book (First Novel) shortlisted for Marriage Material