Books & Spoken Word
Niven Govinden and Saskia Vogel
Niven Govinden (pictured), and Saskia Vogel, both published by trailblazing publisher, Dialogue Books, discuss their work and the creative writing process with Dr Madhu Krishnan ( Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Bristol ) and Harriet Castor ( Author & Senior Lecturer, Creative and Professional Writing, UWE ).
Niven Govinden’s latest novel, his fifth, is This Brutal House – selected as both a Guardian Must Read 2019 and an iNews Best New Fiction of 2019. His fourth novel, All The Days And Nights was longlisted for the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize. His second novel Graffiti My Soul is about to go into film production. His third novel Black Bread White Beer won the 2013 Fiction Uncovered Prize. He was a judge for the 2017 4th Estate/Guardian B4ME Prize and the 2016 Bristol Short Story Prize.
Saskia Vogel’s new novel, Permission, is her first and has been receiving great reviews. Arifa Akbar, writing in The Observer, said the novel “possesses an unshowy beauty…suggesting Vogel is a gleaming new talent.” And Stylist magazine said “Vogel’s writing is beauty in motion”. Vogel was named in Elle Magazine’s ONES TO WATCH for 2019. She is from Los Angeles and lives in Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on power and sexuality for publications such as Paris Review Daily, The White Review, Sight and Sound, and The Offing.
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