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 Bidisha Bidisha is one of the team of presenters of Night Waves. She was born in London and began writing professionally at the age of fourteen, contributing reviews, features and interviews to arts publications NME, i-D, Dazed and Confused, The List and Volume. She signed the book deal for her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Seahorses, at 16, and went on to write columns for The Independent, The Big Issue and the Evening Standard as well as various other broadsheets and magazines internationally. Bidisha specialised in Old and Middle English at Oxford, ran away from the first day of her PhD there and instead did a Masters on Moral and Political Philosophy. She was also a contributing editor of feminist magazine Sybil and style magazine 2nd Generation and editor of the arts magazine The Stealth Corporation. Her second novel, the dark thriller Too Fast To Live, was published when she was 21. Bidisha then lectured in political theory and was an arts critic and social affairs commentator for BBC Radio London before becoming a critic and broadcaster for Saturday Review, Front Row and Newsnight Review, as well as guest presenting for the World Service books show, The Word. She currently writes regularly on social issues for the Guardian, reviews books for The Independent on Sunday and is a judge of the 2009 Orange prize. Her third book, the memoir Venetian Masters, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim. She is currently knocking about ideas for her fourth book. |
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