Preti Taneja

Preti Taneja was born in England. As a child, she spent most of her holidays in New Delhi. Her career has included human rights reporter, filmmaker in Iraq, Jordan, Rwanda, and Kosovo, and editor of Visual Verse, an online anthology of art and words. She is a research fellow in global Shakespeare at Queen Mary, University of London, and Warwick University. She is an author who writes about human rights, contemporary India, literature and culture. She was named an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 2014. Her books include Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq's Minority, and her first novel, We That are Young for which she won the 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists.