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Gurnaik Johal (born 1998) is a British writer of Indian origin. Originally from Northolt, London, he studied at the University of Manchester.^[1]

Johal's debut collection of short stories, We Move, was published in 2022. Among other honours, it won the Somerset Maugham Award. His sophomore novel, Saraswati, is due out in 2025.^[2]^[3]

We Move (2022)

We Move was published April 2022, by Serpent's Tail, and contains 17 stories:

Arrival
The Red River
Leave to Remain
Chatpata: Kaam
Strange Attractor
Flight Path
SYM
The Turn
Chatpata: Ahankar
Afterimage
The Piano
Haven Green
Be More Roy
Chatpata: Moh
Freehold
The Twelfth of Never
We Move

The collection was generally well received by critics,^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] with both The Guardian and Hindustan Times named it one of the best books of 2022.^[8]^[9] It won the 2023 Somerset Maugham Award^[10] and the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award.^{[citation needed]} Prior to the collection's publication, "Arrival" won the 2022 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Award,^[11] and "The Piano" had been shortlisted for the 2018 Guardian and Fourth Estate BAME Short Story Prize.^[12]

References

^ Sethi, Anita (26 March 2022). "Gurnaik Johal: 'I am constantly wondering about the lives of others'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
^ "We Move". Serpent's Tail. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
^ Shariatmadari, David; Jordan, Justine; Spencer, Liese (28 December 2024). "From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Pope Francis: the books to look forward to in 2025". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
^ Goyal, Sana (1 April 2022). "We Move by Gurnaik Johal review – virtuosic stories of British-Punjabi life". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
^ Self, John (4 April 2022). "We Move by Gurnaik Johal review – a colourful tapestry of multicultural lives". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
^ Srinivasan, Krishna (26 April 2022). "We Move by Gurnaik Johal - "short story writing at its finest"". The Gryphon. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
^ Bhasin, Simar (21 July 2022). "Review: We Move by Gurnaik Johal". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
^ Jordan, Justine (3 December 2022). "Best fiction of 2022". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
^ "HT reviewers pick their best reads of 2022". Hindustan Times. 23 December 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
^ McDonald, Teddy (29 June 2023). "'A plethora of riches' – announcing the winners of the 2023 Society of Authors' Awards". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
^ "In conversation with...Gurnaik Johal". FLO London. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
^ Armitstead, Claire (6 August 2018). "BAME short story prize shortlist ranges across modern life". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 January 2025.

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