Christopher Raja

Christopher Raja was born in Calcutta. He is the author of a memoir, Into the Suburbs: A Migrants Story (UQP, 2020), a play The First Garden (Currency Press, 2012), and a novel, The Burning Elephant (Giramondo, 2015). Christopher has been twice shortlisted for the Northern Territory Chief Ministers Book of the Year award. He was the 2021 UTS Copyright Agency New Writers Fellow, and his memoir was Highly Commended in the National Biography Award 2021. https://www.christopherraja.com/