Suhayl Saadi

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Dr. Suhayl Saadi (born 1961, Beverley, Yorkshire) is a physician, writer and dramatist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Saadi's varied literary output includes novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, anthologies of fiction, plays for stage and radio theatre, and "wisdom pieces" for The Dawn Patrol, the Sarah Kennedy show on BBC Radio 2.

1 Works
2 Partial bibliography
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Works

Psychoraag is not just
Midnight's Children -meets-Trainspotting…
Saadi is more thoughtful than Welsh or Rushdie.
—Angus Calder, April 25, 2004 book review,
The Sunday Herald.

Saadi's 2004 novel, Psychoraag, won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Patras Bokhari Prize, and was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Scottish Book Trust designated Psychoraag one of the 100 Best Scottish Books of all time. It will be published in French by Paris-based Éditions Métailié.

Saadi has written articles and essays for numerous outlets, including The Independent, The Times, The Herald, The Sunday Herald, the British Council, The Scotsman and others, covering subjects as diverse as psychedelic music, Sufism, the British pantomime, the future of creativity and various aspects of literature and its relationship to global politics. His short story collection, The Burning Mirror, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Prize in 2001.

Saadi has written stage and radio plays including The Dark Island, The White Cliffs and Saame Sita. He has edited or co-edited a number of anthologies including Macallan Shorts, A Fictional Guide to Scotland and a compilation of new writing from South Africa and Scotland, Freedom Spring: Ten Years On. He has appeared widely on television, radio and in public literary readings and is currently working on several stage plays and another novel, Kings of the Dark House.

Saadi's work has appeared in translation in various anthologies, most recently in German in Cool Britannia, Al Kennedy ed., Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2006.

Saadi is a board member and co-director of Heer Productions Limited, an arts production company which established the Pakistani Film, Media and Arts Festival in the United Kingdom in 2005.

[edit] Partial bibliography

[edit] Books

The Aerodrome. Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2005. Paperback: ISBN 1-905-20704-2.

Psychoraag. Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, 2004. Hardcover: ISBN 1-845-02010-3. Paperback: ISBN 1-845-02062-6.

The White Cliffs. Dingwall: Sandstone Press. 2004. ISBN 0-954-63331-8.

The Burning Mirror. Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 2001. Paperback: ISBN 0-748-66293-6, ISBN 978-0-74866-293-7.

The Snake. (Under the pen name Melanie Desmoulins.) Creation Books, 1997. Paperback: ISBN 1-871-59282-8. Literary erotic fiction in the vein of Georges Bataille, Anaïs Nin and Guillaume Apollinaire.

[edit] Plays

Garden of the Fourteenth Moon. 2006.

The White Cliffs. Glasgow, 2005.

The Dark Island. London, BBC Radio 4, 2004.

Saame Sita. Edinburgh, 2003. Based on Lapland folktales of the Sami people.

[edit] Anthologies

A Fictional Guide to Scotland. Editors: Meaghan Delahunt, Suhayl Saadi, Elizabeth Reeder. Glasgow: OpenInk, 2003. Paperback: ISBN 0-954-55600-3, ISBN 978-0-95455-600-6.

Shorts: The Macallan. Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collection. Editor: Suhayl Saadi. Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 2003. Paperback: ISBN 0-748-66329-0, ISBN 978-0-74866-329-3.

Freedom Spring: Ten Years On. Editors: Suhayl Saadi, Catherine McInerney. New Lanark: Waverley Books, 2005. Paperback: ISBN 1-902-40733-4, ISBN 978-1-902-40733-3.