Brannavan Gnanalingam is a novelist and lawyer based in Wellington. He’s the author of the Ngaio Marsh Award winning Sprigs (2020), and Sodden Downstream (2017), both also shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. His A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse was also longlisted for the same award in 2016. His latest, Slow Down, You’re Here was released in April 2022. 

Twitter: @brannavan

Verb Festival 2022 Appearances:
Radical Possibility of Ignoring Genre, Sat 5 Nov, 6pm (LitCrawl).
The Chronicler of The Familiar, Sat 5 Nov, 7:15pm (LitCrawl).
Naming the Beast: Towards a Grammar of Race, Sat 5 Nov, 8:30pm (LitCrawl).

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