Ponti is the debut novel by UEA alumna Sharlene Teo and is published by Picador this week. Originally from Singapore, Sharlene graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2013, when she was the recipient of that year’s Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. She subsequently became the David T K Wong Creative Writing Fellow at UEA before undertaking her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing, also at UEA. In 2014 she was a Fellow at the Sozopol Seminars in Bulgaria, and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the Berlin Writing Prize and received a fellowship from the University of Iowa International Writing Program. Ponti was the winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award in 2016, and translation rights have been sold throughout the world.
Ponti by Sharlene Teo
