Literary magazines

Ajit Mookerjee

About:

Ajit Mookerjee was a contributor to a number of magazines, including Life and Letters Today and Horizon. He published prolifically on art. He was also a friend of E. M. Forster and C. L. R. James.

Location:

London

Tags for Making Britain:

art

Literary magazines

criticism

K. Ahmad Abbas

About:

K. Ahmad Abbas was a writer living in London in the 1940s. He contributed to Indian Writing and was also linked to the New India Publishing Company. His novel Rice was reviewed in Life and Letters Today.

Other names:

K. Ahmed Abbas

Location:

London

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Literary magazines

writers

Alagu Subramaniam

About:

Alagu Subramaniam was a Ceylon-born English short story writer. He was one of the founders and editors of the literary magazine Indian Writing. Mulk Raj Anand and Iqbal Singh also published one of his short stories in their anthology Indian Short Stories (New India Publishing Company, 1946). His short stories were published by a number of journals, such as Life and Letters Today and the Left Review. He was also involved with the anti-colonial organization Swaraj House.

Date of birth:

01 Jan 1910

Connections:

Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, Bhicoo Batlivala, Krishnarao Shelvankar, Iqbal Singh, Sasadhar Sinha, M. J. Tambimuttu, Jinadasa Vijayatunga.

Precise DOB unknown:

Secondary works:

Brooker, Peter and Thacker, Andrew (eds), The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Ranasinha, Ruvani, South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007)

Country of birth:

Ceylon

Current name country of birth:

Sri Lanka

Date of death:

01 Jan 1971

Precise date of death unknown:

Location:

London

Tags for Making Britain:

Ceylon