Anita Sethi
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Anita Sethi is a British writer, journalist and author who has written about nature, walking, racism, anxiety and northern England.[1] She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has been a Judge of the British Book Awards, the Women's Prize and the Orwell Prize. She is the winner of a Books Are My Bag Readers' Award and was nominated for the Wainwright Prize, The Great Outdoors Awards, and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize for writing that "evokes the spirit of a place". She has presented several episodes of BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day programme.
Sethi was born in Manchester, England, to a mother from Guyana and a father from Kenya.[2][3][4] Her mother was a nurse and a single parent; Sethi grew up in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester.[5][6] She attended the University of Cambridge.[7] Sethi is a Doctor of Philosophy by publication, awarded in 2024 by York St John University; her thesis was "Walking through a Wounderland: Wilderness, Wellbeing and Where to Belong in I Belong Here a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain and Other Works".[8][9]
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