Christopher Raja

Christopher Raja is the author of the memoir Into The Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story (UQP, 2020), the novel The Burning Elephant (Giramondo, 2015) and the play The First Garden (Currency Press, 2012). He is the 2021 UTS Copyright Agency New Writer's Fellow.

Works By Christopher Raja

A Quest for Pure Fiction
I’m interested in crossing cultures – with sensitivity. There’s a risk of ‘appropriation’ or ‘projection’ and, with those camels, of a corny anthropomorphism. But without taking and managing such risks, we’d risk killing off the very possibility o...
10 Nov. 2021

Works Featuring Christopher Raja

Imaginations Fed by Exile
Christopher Raja’s memoir, Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story, takes readers on several kinds of journeys: from India to Australia (and later, back again); from the city into the suburbs; from childhood through adolescence to adulthood; and from
6 Oct. 2021