Sathnam Sanghera


Sathnam Sanghera is a British journalist and author.

Early life and education

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976.
His parents had emigrated to the UK in 1968. He was raised as a Sikh. He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.

Career

Before becoming a writer, Sanghera worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York. As a student he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as a "news bunny" for L!VE TV. Between 1998 and 2006 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times.
He joined The Times as a columnist and feature writer in 2007. He also writes the motoring column for Management Today magazine. His memoir, The Boy With The Topknot was adapted for BBC Two in 2017.
In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Personal life

He is single and lives in North London.

Publications