Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Indian Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976.[1][2] His parents had emigrated from India to the UK in 1968.[3][4] He was raised a Sikh.[4] He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.[2]

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.[2] As a student he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE TV.[5] Between 1998 and 2006 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.[2]

He joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007.[2] He also writes the motoring column for Management Today magazine.[2] His memoir, The Boy With The Topknot (2009) was adapted for BBC Two in 2017.[1]

In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[6][7]

He is single and lives in North London.[8][2]

• The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton.[9] Published by Penguin, 2008, ISBN 0141028599.
• Marriage Material Published by Europa Editions, 2016, ISBN 9781609453176.

• Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards, 2002.[2]
• Article of the Year in the 2005 Management Today Writing Awards.[2]
• Newspaper Feature of the Year, Workworld Media Awards.[2]
• Journalist of the Year, Watson Wyatt Awards, 2006 and 2009.[2]
• Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, 2009
• Shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2009.[2]
• Winner, Mind Book of the Year, 2009.[10]
• Honorary Doctor of Letters for services to journalism, University of Wolverhampton, September 2009.[2]
• President's Medal, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010.[2]
• Costa Book Awards (First Novel) shortlisted for Marriage Material[11]

• List of British Sikhs

• Official website