Gurnaik Johal (born 1998) is a British writer of Indian origin.
[1] Johal's debut collection of short stories, We Move, was published in 2022.
[2][3] We Move was published April 2022, by Serpent's Tail, and contains 17 stories: The collection was generally well received by critics,[4][5][6][7] with both The Guardian and Hindustan Times named it one of the best books of 2022.
[8][9] It won the 2023 Somerset Maugham Award[10] and the Tata Literature Live!
[citation needed] Prior to the collection's publication, "Arrival" won the 2022 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Award,[11] and "The Piano" had been shortlisted for the 2018 Guardian and Fourth Estate BAME Short Story Prize.