Zafar Anjum is a Singapore-based Indian journalist and writer. He has been writing fiction and essays since 2000. Over the years, his journalism and creative writing has appeared in periodicals and websites in India, U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries. One of his short stories, Waiting for the Angels, was a finalist for “The Little Magazine New Writing Prize” (2006) for emerging Indian writers. Recently, his stories have been anthologized in Monsoon Books’ Love and Lust in Singapore (2010), Crime Scene: Singapore (2010) and Best of Southeast Asian Erotica (2010). He recently finished work on a collection of short stories, for which he has received the 2010 Arts Creation Fund grant from Singapore’s National Arts Council. Zafar is a cineaste, an avid blogger (dreamink.blogspot.com) and editor of Kitaab.org, a website dedicated to Asian writing in English. An Award-winning journalist, Zafar works as the Asia Online Editor for Fairfax Business Media’s technology publications, including Computerworld Singapore, Computerworld Malaysia, CIO Asia and MIS Asia.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/zafaranjum
Blogs: Dream Ink and Techlightenment
Email: zafaranjum@hotmail.com
Literary Agent: Jacaranda Literary Agency
Recent Interviews
Telling a Singapore Story
Singapore
Love and Lust in Singapore
Singapore
Such A Long Journey
The Hindu, India
Anjum on Bergman
Academia, USA
Anjum on the future of books
Chillibreeze, India
