Sentence examples for ethnic writer from inspiring English sources

Latest novel: Family Life (Faber) I have benefited from being an ethnic writer.

In his 2011 memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes, he wrote of his struggle with the "ethnic" writer label and noted that even today there are few other Latino authors whose work has been awarded the same recognition.

But Shukla, who has led a groundswell of anger about the issue on social media after he highlighted the fact that the list of titles announced for 2016 World Book Night failed to include a single BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writer, said that publishing as a whole was keen to shift the blame elsewhere.

It seems that only "ethnic" writers carry a burden of "representation" whether they want to or not.

In the same issue I see the Guardian is co-sponsor of a literary prize of £1,000 "open to black, Asian and minority ethnic writers" (Review, page 6).

The Guardian and 4th Estate BAME prize will be open to black, Asian and minority ethnic writers aged 18 and over and based in the UK.

American ethnic writers in particular employed irony in works ranging from memoirs (e.g., Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior [1976]) to novels (e.g., Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus [1991]) to disrupt racial stereotypes.

Greenhill has also written a play about young people, disillusionment and political engagement, and been chosen as one of the winners of ITV's Original Voices Scheme for BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) writers.

Penguin Random House has launched a drive to recruit more diverse candidates; HarperCollins has piloted a BAME traineeship, and Sunny Singh, Nikesh Shukla and Media Diversified have started up the Jhalak book prize for black and minority ethnic writers in the UK.

He wrote "much as World Book Night has bravely decided to diversify the types of books offered for its lists... it seems to have left off any Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic writers in 2016.

This essay is extracted from The Good Immigrant, a book of essays about race and immigration in the UK by 21 British black, Asian and minority ethnic writers, edited by Nikesh Shukla and featuring contributions from Bim Adewunmi, Salena Godden, Musa Okwonga, Coco Khan, Himesh Patel and more.