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Name
  
Sathnam Sanghera


Role
  
Journalist

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Education
  
Wolverhampton Grammar School

Books
  
Marriage Material, The Boy with the Topknot, If You Don't Know Me by Now, WORLD BOOK NIGHT th

Profiles

Twitter

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Sathnam Sanghera (born 1976) is a British journalist and author.

Contents

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Early life and education

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Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. His parents had emigrated to the UK in 1968. He was raised as a Sikh. At the age of 10 he worked part-time in a sewing factory. 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

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Before becoming a writer, Sanghera worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York. As a student he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE TV. Between 1998 and 2006 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.

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He joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007. He also writes for Management Today magazine.

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In 2016 Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Publications

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  • The Boy With The Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton. Published by Penguin, 2008, ISBN 0141028599.
  • Marriage Material Published by Europa Editions, 2016, ISBN 9781609453176.

    • Awards

  • Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards, 2002.
  • Article of the Year in the 2005 Management Today Writing Awards.
  • Newspaper Feature of the Year, Workworld Media Awards.
  • Journalist of the Year, Watson Wyatt Awards, 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 Awards (First Novel) shortlisted for Marriage Material

    • Personal life

    He is single and lives in North London.

    Sanghera's Law

    Sanghera's Law states that the probability of any tweet with more than 50 retweets leading to a discussion about Sharia Law is 100%.

    References

    Sathnam Sanghera Wikipedia
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