Discussion with Management Consultant Turned Award-Winning Novelist Santanu Bhattacharya

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Santanu Bhattacharya, an award-winning novelist and former management consultant.

Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of two novels, One Small Voice and Deviants, and several works of short fiction. One Small Voice was an Observer Best Debut Novel for 2023, and was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Deviants won the Rainbow Award and BLF-Atta Galata Prize 2025, and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Santanu is the recipient of the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency, the Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize, and a London Writers’ Award. He grew up in India, and now lives in London.

People in this episode

Guest: Santanu Bhattacharya

Topics covered

• novels
• writing
• awards
• consulting

Keywords

• One Small Voice
• Deviants
• Observer Best Debut Novel
• Rainbow Award

Mentioned in this episode

Products: One Small Voice, Deviants

Books & works: One Small Voice, Deviants, the Author’s Club, the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize, the Rainbow Award, BLF-Atta Galata Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency, the Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize

Places: India, London

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