Deviants - In Conversation with Santanu Bhattacharya

Join author Santanu Bhattacharya for an in-depth exploration of his debut novel One Small Voice and his most recent book Deviants.

Deviants examines the histories we inherit and the legacies we leave behind, and offers a moving exploration of India’s changing social acceptance of LGBTQI+ identity.

Santanu Bhattacharya grew up in India, and studied at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore. He won the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency in 2023, and the Mo Siewcharran and Life Writing Prizes in 2021. His first novel, One Small Voice, was an Observer best debut novel of 2023, and was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Society of Authors’ Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. He now lives in London.

This event is part of our LGBT History Month programme