Speaker Profile
Gurnaik Johal
About
Gurnaik Johal’s short story collection We Move (Serpent’s Tail, 2022) won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Tata Literature Live! Prize, was a Guardian Book of the Year and a Hindustan Times Book of the Year. He won the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2022. His work has been featured in BBC Radio 4’s Short Works series as well as in the short fiction anthology Duets (Scratch Books, 2024). His first novel Saraswati is an Observer Best Debut of 2025 and has been shortlisted for the 2025 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.
Sessions
Saraswati
KaLaM Hub
With: Sujaan Mukherjee
Gurnaik Johal discusses his acclaimed novel with Sujaan Mukherjee
Fri, 23 Jan3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Literature
River Muse
KaLaM Hub
With: Sanjoy Hazarika, Labonita Ghosh
Sanjoy Hazarika and Gurnaik Johal on rivers as muse. In conversation with Labonita Ghosh
Sat, 24 Jan4:50 PM - 5:50 PM
Literature