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Sathnam Sanghera
Sathnam Sanghera FRSL (born 1976) is a British journalist and best-selling author.
Sathnam Sanghera was born to Indian Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. His parents had emigrated from India to the UK in 1968. He was raised a Sikh. He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School, an independent school where he had gained a place after passing the 11+ examination and was funded by the government's Assisted Places Scheme. He graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.
Before becoming a writer, Sanghera worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York. As a student, he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE TV. Between 1998 and 2006, he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.
Sanghera joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007. He also writes the motoring column for Management Today magazine. His memoir, The Boy with the Topknot (2009), was adapted for BBC Two in 2017. His novel Marriage Material, originally published in 2013, was inspired in part by Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale.
In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
His books Empireland and Empireworld both focus on the history of British imperialism. According to Sanghera, while growing up, he remembers learning a sanitized version of British history and imperialism, and began to look at the history differently when he met Irish students as a postgraduate. In November 2021, his Channel 4 documentary series about race, Empire State of Mind, received a four-star review in The Guardian from Chitra Ramaswamy. His 2013 novel Marriage Material, about a Sikh family in Wolverhampton, was adapted for theater in 2025.
Sanghera lives in North London.
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Sathnam Sanghera
Sathnam Sanghera FRSL (born 1976) is a British journalist and best-selling author.
Sathnam Sanghera was born to Indian Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. His parents had emigrated from India to the UK in 1968. He was raised a Sikh. He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School, an independent school where he had gained a place after passing the 11+ examination and was funded by the government's Assisted Places Scheme. He graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.
Before becoming a writer, Sanghera worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York. As a student, he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE TV. Between 1998 and 2006, he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.
Sanghera joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007. He also writes the motoring column for Management Today magazine. His memoir, The Boy with the Topknot (2009), was adapted for BBC Two in 2017. His novel Marriage Material, originally published in 2013, was inspired in part by Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale.
In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
His books Empireland and Empireworld both focus on the history of British imperialism. According to Sanghera, while growing up, he remembers learning a sanitized version of British history and imperialism, and began to look at the history differently when he met Irish students as a postgraduate. In November 2021, his Channel 4 documentary series about race, Empire State of Mind, received a four-star review in The Guardian from Chitra Ramaswamy. His 2013 novel Marriage Material, about a Sikh family in Wolverhampton, was adapted for theater in 2025.
Sanghera lives in North London.