Rajeev Balasubramanyam is the award-winning author of In Beautiful Disguises (Bloomsbury, 2000), which won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Fiction Award. In 2004, he received the Clarissa Luard Prize for the best British writer under the age of 35.
His most recent novel, Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss (Chatto & Windus / Random House, 2019), was the Bookseller’s Book of the Month in June 2019 and has been translated into seven languages. His journalism has appeared in VICE, The Washington Post, The Economist, The New Statesman, Salon, London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review and many others.
Rajeev holds a PhD in English and degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He has lived in London, Manchester, Berlin, Kathmandu, and Hong Kong—where he was a Research Scholar in the Society of Scholars at Hong Kong University—as well as on a remote beach in Suffolk.
From 2014 to 2016, he was a Hemera Foundation Fellow, supporting writers with a meditation practice, and has served as Writer-in-Residence at both the Crestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City.
You can find Rajeev on Instagram at @the.mind.revolutionary. He co-leads a monthly workshop, From Stillness to Speaking Out, held on the first Thursday of each month with Harley Street psychotherapist Disree Shaw. The workshop explores how to still the mind in order to speak and act with greater authenticity and assertiveness.
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