#Merky Books winner Sufiyaan Salam wanted to 'write for lads like me'
Briefly

"A lot of the novel is about how complex our identities are," he says. "The idea of a British Pakistani man, you know, there's a certain stereotype associated with us."
"It's so much fun breaking apart stereotypes and subverting things and making it so different to this expectation, and the weight of the expectation I had over my life for so long," he says.
Read at BBC News
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