An extract from The Things That We Lost, the debut novel by Jyoti Patel, published by Merky Books / Penguin Random House in January 2023 Chapter 3 July 2017 Avani stares across the River Ganga, trying her best to put what she’s seeing into words. Water. Sky. Trees. Locals. Tourists. Bells. Orange. Green. Blue. This […]
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The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel
The Things That We Lost is the debut novel by UEA alumna Jyoti Patel and is published this week by Penguin / Merky Books. Jyoti was born in Paris to British Indian parents and grew up in London. She graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2014 and from […]
Jyoti Patel and Stephen Buoro selected for The Observer’s 10 Best New Novelists
Two graduates of the UEA MA in Creative Writing have been named among the Observer’s annual selection of the 10 Best New Novelists. Stephen Buoro is nominated for his debut The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa and Jyoti Patel for her first novel The Things That We Lost. Stephen (pictured) was born in Nigeria in […]
Jyoti Patel and Ellen Wiese shortlisted for Bristol Short Story Prize
Current UEA student Ellen Wiese and MA alumna Jyoti Patel have been shortlisted for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize. Ellen, who is nominated for ‘The Walking King’, is currently completing the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction). Born in Minnesota, she received her BA and MAPH in English Literature from the University of Chicago […]
Jyoti Patel and Ellen Wiese longlisted for Bristol Short Story Prize
Current UEA student Ellen Wiese and MA alumna Jyoti Patel have been longlisted for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize. Ellen, who is nominated for ‘The Walking King’, is currently completing the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction). Born in Minnesota, she received her BA and MAPH in English Literature from the University of Chicago […]
Jyoti Patel wins Merky Books New Writers Prize
One Of Six by UEA alumna Jyoti Patel has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Merky Books New Writers Prize, a competition established by the rapper Stormzy in association with Penguin Books to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16-30 from the UK and Ireland. Her novel was selected from more than 2,000 submissions […]
Jyoti Patel longlisted for the Merky Books New Writers’ Prize
Recent UEA Creative Writing graduate Jyoti Patel has been longlisted for the Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. Jyoti (pictured) was born in Paris to British Indian parents and grew up in London. She graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2014 and completed the MA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
An Extract from ‘The Things That We Lost’, a novel
Nik yearns to know more about his father, who died before he was born. But with his mother refusing to speak about what happened, Nik discovers that his recently-deceased grandfather may have left him a way to uncover the truth for himself. August 2017 ‘Nikhil. I need the car please, beta. Can you come […]
