Arjun Basu
Canadian writer
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Arjun Basu is a Canadian writer.[1] He has published three award-nominated books, and was also known for his Twitter feed, on which he posted flash fiction branded as "Twisters".[1][2]
Arjun Basu | |
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| Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | writer |
| Genre | novelist, short stories |
| Notable works | Squishy, Waiting for the Man |
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| Official website | |
Born and raised in Montreal to immigrant parents from India, Basu published his debut short story collection Squishy in 2008. The book was shortlisted for the ReLit Awards in 2009.[1] His novel Waiting for the Man was published in 2014,[3] and was a longlisted nominee for that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize.[4] In 2025, he published his second novel, The Reeds,[5] nominated for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction by the Quebec Writers Federation.[6]
He is also the host of The Full Bleed Podcast,[7] a show about the "future of magazines and the magazines of the future," a part of Magazeum,[8] a network devoted to magazines and magazine professionals.
