GOA ARTS LITERARY FESTIVAL
The Goa Arts Literary Festival will be held in Goa, from 4th to 7th December, 2014
TATA LITERATURE LIVE FESTIVAL
The Tata Literature Live Festival will be held in Mumbai, from 30th October to 2nd November, 2014
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Saumya Balsari will host a talk and writing skills workshop for a women’s group in autumn 2014
CAMBRIDGE 105 FM
April 2014
Saumya Balsari was a studio guest on Cambridge 105 FM in April 2014
READING GROUPS
Q1 2014
Talks for reading groups in Brazil and Singapore in February and March 2014
THREE CAMBRIDGE AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION
Wednesday, November 13th 2013 from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. at Cherry Hinton Library
Meet Saumya Balsari, Jane Wilson-Howarth and Rosy Thornton. Free event with light refreshments.
DISCUSSION WITH READING GROUP AT CENTRAL LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE
November 16th 2013 at 4 p.m.
BBC RADIO CAMBRIDGESHIRE
November 13th 2013 at 12.10 p.m.
Live studio chat on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
AUTHOR OF THE MONTH FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE LIBRARIES
LOCAL MEDIA
Book Mentions in Cambridge Writers Newsletter July 2013
BOOKS AND BEYOND. LITERARY FESTIVAL 2013
Favourite Humurous Extracts: Reading from THE CAMBRIDGE CURRY CLUB at the Bombay Gymkhana, Mumbai, on Saturday 12th July.
MILL ROAD BRIDGES NEWSLETTER SPRING 2013
Mill Road Readers Book Roundup
WATTPAD
First two chapters of SUMMER OF BLUE uploaded for free reading.
SUMMER OF BLUE IS ON GOOD READS
Ten giveaway copies in the U.K. Competition ends 20th July.
AUTHORIGHT
Summer Reads 2013
July 5th 2013
After the huge success of her first novel The Cambridge Curry Club, our author Saumya Balsari, releases her eagerly awaited second novel.
WASAFIRI SPECIAL EDITION
May 25th 2012
Wasafiri, the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, is publishing a new Special Issue entitled, ‘Britain and India: Cross-cultural Encounters’. The issue features some of the most gifted South Asian writers and poets of the 1920s and ’30s, and includes interviews with Amitav Ghosh and Nayantara Sahgal, and interrogates the impact of South Asian publishing, theatre, art and film in Britain in the early twentieth century.
AUTHOR EVENT
April 26th 2012
Meet and hear Saumya Balsari at Rock Road Library, Cambridge.
WORDFEST LITERARY FESTIVAL
April 13th to 15th 2012
The Cambridge Curry Club featured by City-Picks in its selection of the finest writing on Cambridge.
BOOK PROMOTION 2012 BY MAGNA PUBLISHERS
April 5th 2012
Book promotion by Magna Publishing in Mumbai.
PANEL DISCUSSION
May 19th 2012
Discussion with Dame Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge) and writers Ali Smith, Ruth Padel, Amanda Craig and Louisa Young at Kettle’s Yard, 2011.
OTHER NEWS
The Cambridge Curry Club has been borrowed 5,433 times up to June 2012 in UK libraries.
A copy of The Cambridge Curry Club has been acquired by the Prisoners Library, Swatantrya Sainik Rangrao Barwade Library, Walwa, District Sangli, Maharashtra, as well as the British Council Mumbai and the Bombay Gymkhana Library, Mumbai.