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Suhayl Saadi is an early C21st novelist and stage and radio dramatist based in Glasgow, Scotland whose latest novel, 'Psychoraag' (Black and White Publishing, 2004) won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2005) and the Patras Bokhari Prize (2005), was nominated for the IMPAC prize and will be published in French by the Paris-based Éditions Métailié. His short story collection, ‘The Burning Mirror’ was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Prize (2001). His first novel, 'The Snake' (Creation Books, 1997), written under the name, Melanie Desmoulins, was a literary erotic fiction in the vein of Bataille, Nin and Appollinaire. Produced plays include 'The Dark Island' (BBC Radio Four, London, 2004), 'The White Cliffs' (Glasgow, 2005) and 'Saame Sita' (Edinburgh, 2003). Saadi has edited a number of anthologies, including 'A Fictional Guide to Scotland' (2003)and 'Freedom Spring: Ten Years On' (2005), a compilation of new writing from South Africa and Scotland. He has appeared widely on TV, radio and in public across the world and currently is working on another novel and several stage plays. His work has been described in the press as "hallucinatory realism" and as "a cross between Salman Rushdie and Irvine Welsh". www.suhaylsaadi.com