Robin Saikia

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Robin Saikia
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Robin Saikia is a British travel writer and historian. [1]

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Biography

Robin Saikia was born in 1962 and educated at Winchester College. His mother's side is English and his father's side is of Indian Assamese ancestry. He grew up in England, Zambia and India. [2]

Books

Robin Saikia wrote The Venice Lido, a guide to Venice's beach resort. [3] He compiled Blue Guide Literary Companion London, an anthology of poetry and prose excerpts written in and about London. His latest Blue Guide travel monnograph, published in 2024, is Drink and Think Venice: The Story of Venice in Twenty-Six Bars and Cafés. Some of the other Blue Guides which he has written are Blue Guide Hay-on-Wye, and Blue Guide Italy Food Companion: Phrasebook & Miscellany.

He also wrote The Red Book: The Membership List of The Right Club about "upper-class English anti-Semitism during Hitler's rise to power." [4]

He was editor of The Horn Book: A Victorian Sex Manual, was co-editor, with Joachim Von Halasz, of Munich: A Third Reich Tourist Guide and was a contributor, with Charles James Lyall and Abu Zazariya Yahya Al-Tibrizi, to A Commentary on Ten Ancient Arabic Poems.

Saikia also wrote A Very Fine Cat Indeed: A Dramatic Monologue which features the eighteenth century English writer Samuel Johnson reminiscing about his cat "Hodge". [5]

Saikia has published a book on the elocution of British English, entitled The Saikia System: 23 Elocution Exercises for Teachers and Students of Standard British English.


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References

  1. "Robin Saikia". The Tablet magazine. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  2. Davidzon, Vladislav (26 June 2013). "Secrets of English World War II Upper-Class Nazi Club Revealed by a Venetian Dandy". The Tablet magazine. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  3. Rule, Vera (8 July 2011). "The Venice Lido by Robin Saikia – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. "Robin Saikia". The Tablet magazine. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  5. Saikia, Robin (2020). A Very Fine Cat Indeed: A Dramatic Monologue.