Profile: Shereen Pandit

About This Author

Shereen Pandit is a London-based South African political activist and writer whose short stories have won several prizes, including the Booktrust London Award and been short-listed for several others. Her work has been read at the Symphony Space in New York and on various radio stations and has appeared in many anthologies, magazines and newspapers. This is her first novel.

This Author's Books

After a lifetime of political activism in South Africa, Yazz thinks she’s finally content with her quiet London life. She doesn’t expect the reappearance of Lily, the best friend and comrade who betrayed her. Nor does she expect Lily’s demand: to help her....
ISBN: 9781781761670
Published: 28 March 2012
In March 2020, writer and political activist Shereen Pandit began a daily diary. It lasted for 100 days – the approximate length of time for which London, where she lives, was locked down due to the CoVid-19 pandemic. Her first-hand account of those dark ....
ISBN: 9781839454240
Published: 27 August 2020
Waiting for Fidel in the Springtime is a collection of stories - about death. Alice, seeking stories on that theme for a publication, turns to her friend Selma. The title story is Selma’s response – an uproariously funny picture of the new South Africa. A....
ISBN: 9781784078553
Published: 4 July 2014