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UK author Suhayl Saadi. Image credit: Bash Khan.

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Learn more about other contemporary UK authors at Contemporary Writers, the British Council's online catalogue for researching the best literary talent in modern Britain. You can also read more contemporary UK writing in the British Council's New Writing anthology, a collection of excerpts and short prose and poetry from the literary stars of the future.

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Get more information about Suhayl on his website, where you can find links to Suhayl's novellas, poems and other works, or read an interview with Suhayl at Catalyst Magazine.

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UK WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
OCTOBER 1 - 29, 2008

Novelist, short story writer, dramatist and poet, Suhayl Saadi was the latest UK artist to participate in the British Council UK Writer-in-Residence Program. While at George Washington University this fall, Suhayl taught on campus and held public events in the Washington DC area.

Suhayl joined other contemporary British artists as part of an ongoing literature initiative at major American universities. Read more about the UK Writer-in-Residence Program in our special feature.

			Learn more about Suhayl and his novels, poems and short stories.
			Read Suhayl's debut novel Psychoraag for free online.

FREE READING
Monday, October 6, 2008
8:00 p.m.
George Washington University
1957 E Street NW, between 19th and 20th Streets
City View Room, 7th Floor

FREE TALK
¡Quejío!: Shout!
Monday, October 13, 2008
8:15 p.m.
George Washington University
Media and Public Affairs Building, Room B07
805 21st Street NW @ H Street

Suhayl Saadi draws from his own spellbinding writing to discuss how ‘destabilizing’ literature through weaving memory, time and place with many voices brings fiction closer to the truth of everyday life.