Tim Lewis

Tim Lewis is a feature writer at the Observer and contributing editor of British Esquire. A winner of Vogue's Talent Award, he has previously been editor of the Observer Magazine, Observer Sport Monthly and the Independent's Sunday Review. He won the New Writer of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards 2014 for his first book, Land of Second Chances. He also won Writer of the Year at the PPA Awards 2014 for his work for Esquire. He is based in London.

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Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, Island of a Thousand Mirror was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the Northern California Book Award. Publisher’s Weekly wrote, “Munaweera’s… lyrical debut novel [is] worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience, Jhumpa Lahiri.” The New York Times Book review called the novel, “incandescent.”

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