won the Clarissa Luard Award for the best British writer under 35. In 2016, ThePigeonhole.com published his new novel, Starstruck, in serial form online, releasing a different chapter each day in each of which a protagonist has an unexpected, surreal, or comic encounter with a celebrity. Balasubramanyam writes regularly for newspapers and magazines including VICE, Salon, the Washington Post, New Statesman, Frieze, the London Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Media Diversified. In 2019 Balasubramanyam's latest novel, Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss'' was published by Chatto & Windus (UK) and Dial Press (USA) to widespread critical acclaim. It was translated into six languages and was the UK Bookseller Magazine's Book of the Month in June. The novel has been described by Marian Keyes as, "tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny." References External links Author Website Review of In Beautiful Disguises Profile and picture of Rajeev Balasubramanyam Rajeev Balasubramanyam at the Berlin international Festival 2002 21st-century English novelists 1974 births Living people English male novelists 21st-century English male writers