Ms. Atima Srivastava
Atima Srivastava was born in Mumbai and moved to Britain when she was eight. She has written two novels, Transmission and Looking for Maya, both of which are set texts in the syllabi of several universities in Britain and other European countries ranging from Poland to Spain to Russia. Several of her short stories have been commissioned and published in anthologies, New Writing 2001, Well Sorted and Tran-Lit.
She was a professional film editor for 15 years and has three screenplays to her credit: Dancing in the Dark (an adaptation from her novel Transmission) transmitted on C4,The Legendary Vindaloo commissioned by Channel 4; and Camden Story for the BBC. A play, Why not Love? has been commissioned by The National Theatre and she has written the libretto for an opera, Cross Currents, commissioned by BroomHill Opera, performed in June 2003.
She won first prize in the Bridport Arts Short Story competition, an Arts Council Award for her second and third novel, and a Hawthornden Fellowship. She has been British Writer in Residence at the Universities of Singapore, Sophia (Bulgaria), Mumbai, Berne, Cologne, Mainz, Ewha (Seoul), Connecticut College (USA) and Warwick University (UK). She has taught Creative Writing courses and lectured around the world with the British Council and she regularly teaches Creative Writing (prose and screen) and Film Workshops in British and American universities in London.
Website: http://www.paddyfield.com.hk/authors/atimasrivastava/index.html
Novel extract: http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/mediating/atima.html
Article: http://www.britishcouncil.org/brussels-out-of-ourselves-atima-srivastava.pdf
Short story: http://www.barcelonareview.com/25/e_as.htm
British Council website: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth249