Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera FRSL (born 1976) is a British journalist and best-selling author.

Early life and education

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. His parents had emigrated from India to the United Kingdom in 1968. He was raised Sikh. having passed the eleven-plus examination and been funded by the UK government's Assisted Places Scheme. He graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998. As a student, he worked at the Express & Star in Wolverhampton and dressed up as News Bunny for L!VE TV.

Between 1998 and 2006, he was a reporter and feature writer for the Financial Times. He also writes the motoring column for Management Today magazine. In 2009, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree for his contribution to journalism by the University of Wolverhampton.

His novel Marriage Material (2013), about a Sikh family in Wolverhampton, was inspired in part by Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale. It was adapted for theatre in 2025.

In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).

His books Empireland and Empireworld both focus on the history of British imperialism. In November 2021, his Channel 4 documentary series about race, Empire State of Mind, received a four-star review in The Guardian from Chitra Ramaswamy.

Personal life

Sanghera lives in North London.

Publications

Awards