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Author Lounge:
Tishani Doshi |
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Tishani Doshi was born in Madras, India, in 1975, to a Welsh mother and a Gujarati father. Her first collection of poetry, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection in 2006. Since 2001 she has lived and worked in India as a freelance writer and a contemporary dancer. Using her strong foundation in yoga she worked for many years with the legendary Indian choreographer, Chandralekha, and continues to perform on stages all over the world. Tishani Doshi has already appeared at Hay, Segovia, Galle, Berlin, Jaipur and Cartagena Festivals. The Pleasure Seekers is her first novel.
Photo credit: Denzil Sequeira
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