Award-winning writer and critic Rajeev Balasubramanyam will teach an intensive creative writing course to students of Anglophone Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. After an introductory meeting with students, the author will read from and discuss his works on Thursday, 2 July (18.30h, Bibliothekssaal). The actual workshop will be taught on Friday and Saturday, 3-4 July. The course offers a unique opportunity for students to meet and interact with a published author who has held numerous writing residencies across the globe. Participants should be prepared to write short exercises and read them out in class. A selection of texts created in the workshop will be published later this year.

Dr. Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in Lancashire, England. He is a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Lancaster University. He has published three novels to date, In Beautiful Disguises (2000), The Dreamer (2010) and Starstruck (2014), a series of ten interlinked narratives featuring chance encounters with celebrities. Balasubramanyam is the author of numerous short stories; he is also the editor of Tell Tales (vol. 2, 2005), a collection of short fiction. In his award-winning fiction, Balasubramanyam covers a wide range of topics in which he explores his Indian ancestry and addresses pertinent issues surrounding Britain’s multicultural society.