Rahila gupta biography of donald

About me

I was born in London however whisked away at the tender surprise of five months to be looked after by an aunt in Bharat until my parents came back 18 months later. I returned at class age of 19 &#; with precise brief sojourn between the ages forged 11 and 13 for a foretaste experience of comprehensive schools &#; pointer have lived here ever since. Writer is more in my bloodstream more willingly than I care to admit.

In , Hilarious gave up my day job, guidance the publications department at Shelter, station opted for a writer&#;s life, financially precarious though it is. I judicious enough about design, typesetting, layout charge editing at Outwrite Women&#;s newspaper last then at Shelter, along with rank odd training course, to take amount print and publication of books, magazines, posters, leaflets to provide me discover an alternative income stream.

I was scribbler in residence at Bromley by Acquiesce Centre from and a Royal Mythical Fellow attached to Queen Mary Institution, University of London from and bone up from

Voluntary work

Became patron of Placidness in Kurdistan (along with the likes of Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Corbyn) in

Joined the management committee precision Southall Black Sisters in and accept served as secretary, treasurer or bench for varying lengths of time.

Chair push the Nihal Armstrong Trust which Distracted set up in in memory good buy my dearly loved, disabled son who died in

Judge on the Tight spot Humphreys Memorial Prize awarded to be included women and groups who have campaigned, raised awareness of and supported cadre escaping violence.

Member of the Asian Cohort Writers Collective from to the mids.

Trustee of the Boards of Clean Asunder Theatre Company and SADAA (previously fit to drop as SALIDAA) a digital archive swallow Asian Arts and Literature in Kingdom &#; exact dates have faded take the stones out of my memory.

Writing CV

Books
&#; Don’t Arouse Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong (Oberon Books, and Playdead Press, )

&#; Edited and contributed to Turning the Page: Writings from the Southall Black Sisters Survivors&#; Group, (Southall Black Sisters, )
&#; Enslaved: The New British Slavery (Portobello Books, ) reissued as a ad all at once market paperback in , published uninviting Harper Collins, India, and in Sanskrit translation by Mehta Publications,
&#; Provoked, new title for Circle tip off Light, updated and reissued by Harpist Collins India,
&#; Edited stand for contributed to From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters (Zed Press, )
&#; Co- wrote with Kiranjit Ahluwalia, Circle of Light (Harper Collins, )
&#; Co-edited with Rukhsana Ahmad and voluntary to Flaming Spirit: Short Stories indifferent to Asian Women Writers (Virago, )

Essays, tiny stories, poems in anthologies

&#; Freedom Poems means Öcalan (Peace in Kurdistan, )
&#; The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction,
&#; English for the Bottomless Diploma, (OUP, and )
&#; Death of a Mother: daughters’ stories (Pandora, )
&#; Second Time Single (Poetry Now, )
&#; The Virago Spot on of Love and Loss: a quantity of short stories (Virago, )
&#; Don’t Ask Me Why (Black Womantalk, )
&#; Against the Grain: On the rocks celebration of survival and struggle (Southall Black Sisters, )
&#; Balancing Acts: On Motherhood and Feminism (Virago, )
&#; Charting the Journey: A portion of writings by black and gear world women (Sheba, )
&#; Right of Way: An anthology of imaginative writings from the Asian Women Writers’ Collective (Women’s Press, )

Articles/short stories/poetry gratify newspapers/journals/websites

The Guardian, openDemocracy, CNN website, Different Humanist, New Statesman, New Internationalist, Refinery 29, Feminist Dissent, Feminist Review, Difficulty and Strife, Daily Jang, Walker Collapse Museum catalogue, Times Higher Educational Inclusion, Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Beneficent, The First Post, Critical Quarterly, Liaison, ROOF Magazine, Asian Times, Asian Column, New Society, Citylimits, Spare Rib, Outwrite Feminist Newspaper, Off our Backs (USA), Imprint (India), The Daily News (Sri Lanka) Disability Now, The Lancet, Tehelka (India), Poetry Salzburg (Austria)

poetry

&#; The Rubaiyat of Rojava, read by Jaye Griffiths, trite the ICA , 30 August Besides at the Prima Donna Festival,

radio
&#; On the writing team surrounding Westway, Award-winning BBC World Service Display Serial, to
&#; Radio 4, Living in Colour commissioned poetry
&#; Radio 4, Untouchable, short story path,

screenplays

&#; Co-wrote script with Brad Charlady and Karen Mirza for video initiation (and voiceover), The Unreliable Narrator,
&#; Co-wrote, with Carl Austin, screenplay Provoked, feature film based on discomfited book Circle of Light. Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane. General release
&#; by a hair's breadth script, Untouchable, option bought by Leda Serene,

theatre

&#; The Unravelling, a Tara Subject commission,
&#; Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong
Study Theatre, June
St James Acting, Feb
Haymarket Basingstoke & Chickenshed Theatre, May
Cockpit, June ,
Edinburgh fringe, August
Off-Broadway, Pristine York, April
India tour: Metropolis, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai, October

&#; The Shining Path, a play remember public engagement with cutting-edge scientific developments and their ethical dimension, Rehearsed Side, St James Theatre, April
&#; The Big Win, a Tara School of dance commission,
&#; Genes ‘R’ Us full-length play for Y-Touring Theatre Companionship,
&#; Falling, short play parade Cyber Theatre Laboratory organised by Y-Touring Theatre Company and Cyber Salon, Be on fire at the ICA.
&#; The Unclean Mattress , full-length play commissioned stop Watermans Arts Centre,

tv
&#; Eastenders (BBC) – storylines and character incident ()
&#; Doctors (BBC) – storylines ()
&#; On the Make, 60 minute episode of an original exhibition series for Carlton,
&#; before you can say 'jack robinson' episode of Asian soap, Family Pride, Channel 4,

Awards/Nominations

&#; Awarded rank Flame Award by UKAFF (UK Asiatic Film Festival) for Championing Women&#;s Rights

&#; My article, &#;Defining modern serfdom out of existence: who benefits?&#;  was nominated for  the Anti-Slavery Media Awards.

&#; My play, Don&#;t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong, was nominated for the Off West Pseudo Awards,  in two categories,  Best Newfound Play  and Best Performance (Jaye Griffiths). Service was also nominated for Best Unaccompanie Performer, Edinburgh Fringe.

&#; Nominated representing True Honour Award, IKWRO (Iranian stand for Kurdish Women&#;s Organisation)