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Nikesh Shukla

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

February 2022

  • Nikesh Shukla at the Storysmith Bookshop in Bristol

    The books of my life
    Nikesh Shukla: ‘Reading Spider-Man made me feel less alone’

    The author and screenwriter on his love of comic books, James Baldwin’s moral fury, and how The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the funniest books ever written

June 2021

  • A girl looks at a painting of the 379 unarmed men, women and children killed by British forces in the Amritsar massacre.

    I turned down an MBE – I don’t want an honour glorifying the British empire

    Nikesh Shukla
    I was offered an MBE for ‘services to literature’, but I can’t think of anything I want less, writes author Nikesh Shukla

April 2021

  • Georgina Lawton in Lisbon for The Guardian Weekend. Saturday, February 6. José Sarmento Matos for Weekend.

    Raceless; Brown Baby reviews – meditations on racial identity

    Georgina Lawton recalls her search for the truth about her heritage, while Nikesh Shukla examines the trials of parenting in a racist world and coming to terms with his mother’s death

January 2021

  • Belief in community … Nikesh Shukla.

    Nikesh Shukla: 'If I’m writing for my daughters, I want them to know who I am'

    The novelist and editor of The Good Immigrant on telling his children about racism, his relationship with food and coming to terms with his mother’s death in his new memoir Brown Baby

May 2020

  • ‘Out of my comfort zone’ … Sacha Dhawan.

    Lockdown culture
    Sacha Dhawan to star as a standup in Nikesh Shukla's lockdown drama

    Yash Gill’s Power Half Hour, directed by Milli Bhatia, is among a new batch of Virtual Collaborators films released this week

May 2019

  • Bookshelves

    To choose Brexit is to choose to lose, say writers

    Letter: Writers including Neil Gaiman, Marina Lewycka, Nikesh Shukla, Philip Pullman and John le Carré warn that the book industry is just one of the many that will suffer if the UK leaves the EU

December 2018

  • The year the worlds books opened up

    Audiobooks, inclusivity and #MeToo ... how books changed in 2018

    New agents and imprints, Northern Ireland’s first Man Booker winner … in 2018 the books world turned towards inclusivity and a broadening of perspectives

April 2018

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    The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla review – funny and profound

  • Nikesh Shukla - publishes handout

    The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla review – funny and fascinating

February 2018

  • A pair of arms, red boxing gloves on the hands, hanging over the rope of a boxing ring

    The Nikesh Shukla column
    Knockout blows: lessons from my first time inside the ring

    Nikesh Shukla
  • man lacing boxing glove

    The Nikesh Shukla column
    A raging bull in my own sitting room

    Nikesh Shukla

January 2018

  • Commuters Struggle With Over Crowding On Train

    The Nikesh Shukla column
    Fear and loathing on the last train home

    Nikesh Shukla
    Heading back to Bristol at the end of a long day, Nikesh finds himself sharing a carriage with three men who make it very clear what they think about him…
  • Young man using a smartphone in his bed at night

    The awful truth about family WhatsApp groups

    Nikesh Shukla
    In the first of his new column, Nikesh Shukla reveals how a plan to make his WhatsApp group more interesting backfires badly
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    The Guardian Books podcast
    Nikesh Shukla and Julia Kingsford on The Good Agency, plus Tony White - books podcast

    Writer Nikesh Shukla and agent Julia Kingsford share their plans for a literary agency for under-represented authors, and Tony White chats about his Oulipian murder mystery, The Fountain in the Forest

December 2017

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    The Good Agency wins major grant to boost diversity in publishing

    The £580,000 Arts Council England funding will support new initiative to find and develop black and minority ethnic, disabled and LGBTQ writers

September 2017

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    The Good Immigrant's editor plans new journal and agency for writers of colour

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    UK publishing industry remains 90% white, survey finds

August 2017

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    My friend David Bowie by Hanif Kureishi

    They went to the same south London school, a decade apart, and ended up working together. As a new anecdote-filled book is published, the novelist recalls the Bowie he knew

February 2017

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    The working class has its own cultural identity – and we must see it on the page

    Andrew McMillan
    Stories are a key support for each person’s identity, so it’s vital we defend those going unheard and unread – or leave a void to be filled by the far right
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