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Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi immigrant parents in Wolverhampton in 1976.

He entered the education system unable to speak English but went on to graduate from Christ's College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature.

He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material.

Empireland has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in London.