Rajeev Balasubramanyam is a novelist, writer and workshop leader. His first novel In Beautiful Disguises (2002) won a Betty Trask Prize and was longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award. His second novel The Dreamer (2009) is based on a short story which won an Ian St James Prize in 2001. He was the recent winner of the Clarissa Luard Award and an Arts Council Writers’ Award. He has published short stories in various anthologies including New Writing 12.