Brannavan Gnanalingam

Brannavan Gnanalingam is a novelist, reviewer and lawyer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has published five novels through New Zealand publisher, Lawrence & Gibson. His last novel, Sodden Downstream (2017) was shortlisted for the 2018 Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, while his previous novel, A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse (2016) was longlisted for the 2017 award. Photo: Luci Li

Works By Brannavan Gnanalingam

By Way of Circularities: an interview with Witi Ihimaera
Māori culture is the taonga, the treasure vault from which I source my inspiration. How could I not pay tribute to the people and stories of the iwi? Without them I wouldn’t exist. The genealogy of my work can be traced back to Waituhi, my father’...
4 Nov. 2019

Works Featuring Brannavan Gnanalingam

Hope and Carnage: Tim Corballis and Brannavan Gnanalingam
Climate change, migration, activism, terrorism: for people living in a small country at the bottom of the world, what does hope for the future look like in the teeth of that gale?
12 Nov. 2019

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Brannavan Gnanalingam

Works By Brannavan Gnanalingam

By Way of Circularities: an interview with Witi Ihimaera

Works Featuring Brannavan Gnanalingam

Hope and Carnage: Tim Corballis and Brannavan Gnanalingam