Hotel Arcadia

About the Author

Sunny Singh is a London based writer and academic. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Nani’s Book of Suicides, was praised as a "first novel of rare scope and power" and its Spanish translation won the inaugural Mar de Letras prize; With Krishna’s Eyes (2006) which was commended for its "profound insight" and described as "memorable”; and Hotel Arcadia (2015) described as “powerful and absorbing” and “elegantly plotted, psychologically subtle, and almost unbearably exciting.”  Her first non-fiction book, Single in the City: The Independent Woman’s Handbook (2001), is a first-of-its-kind exploration of single women in contemporary India. Her pioneering study of a study of the Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan (2017) was published by BFI Bloomsbury Film Stars Series. Her book on Indian cinema titled A Bollywood State of Mind will be published in October 2023 by Footnote Press.


She has published short stories in prestigious international literary journals including The Drawbridge, The Good Journal and World Literature Today. Her creative nonfiction and academic writing has been published across the world in key journals and anthologies. She also writes for newspapers and magazines, in Spanish and English, across the globe.


She is the founder of the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize and the Jhalak Art Residency.


Sunny is Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at the London Metropolitan University.