Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph is an Indian novelist living in Britain. Her first novel, Saraswati Park , won the Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Her work illuminates the inner lives of characters: from a Bombay letter writer to a single mother in a Norwich factory, or the sceptical late-thirties protagonists of her latest novel, Keeping in Touch , as they navigate falling in love. Anjali's gift is to make art that reconnects readers to their...See more

Anjali Joseph is an Indian novelist living in Britain. Her first novel, Saraswati Park , won the Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Her work illuminates the inner lives of characters: from a Bombay letter writer to a single mother in a Norwich factory, or the sceptical late-thirties protagonists of her latest novel, Keeping in Touch , as they navigate falling in love. Anjali's gift is to make art that reconnects readers to their sense of magic. She is working on a novel about the Irish naval officer and archaeoastronomer Boyle Somerville. See less