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Natasha Soobramanien is a British-Mauritian novelist who received the Goldsmiths Prize in 2022 for her novel Diego Garcia . [1] [2] [3]
Soobramanien was born and raised in North London to Mauritian parents. She also spent some of her childhood moving around as her father was in the RAF, [4] with stints in Hong Kong and Hastings. She graduated from the University of Hull and the University of East Anglia. [5]
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