Preti Taneja

Preti Taneja is a writer and activist. Her debut novel We That Are Young (Galley Beggar Press, 2017) is a translation of Shakespeare's King Lear, set in contemporary India. It won the Desmond Elliott Prize for the finest literary debut novel of the year and was listed for awards including the Folio Prize, the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Prix Jan Michalski, Europe's premier award for a work of world literature. Preti's second book is Aftermath, a lament on trauma, terror, prison and grief, following the London Bridge terror attack in 2019. It was a New Yorker notable book, a New Yorker best book of the year, a White Review book of the year and a New Statesman book of the year in 2021 and in 2022, and shortlisted for British Book of the Year in the 'Discover' category. Aftermath won the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize for literature that is 'forward thinking and fearless in its ambition and execution.'