Arjun Basu
Arjun Basu is a Canadian writer born in Montreal, Quebec, to Indian immigrant parents. He writes novels and short stories. His debut short story collection Squishy (2008) was shortlisted for the ReLit Awards in 2009. His first novel Waiting for the Man (2014) was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2025 he published his second novel, The Reeds, which was nominated for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction by the Quebec Writers Federation. Basu is also known for his Twitter flash fiction series called "Twisters." He hosts The Full Bleed Podcast, a show about the future of magazines, on Magazeum, a network for magazine professionals.
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