[5] While he had studied English literature at GCSE level, the course did not require students to read a novel: We had to do a Shakespeare, and we did Macbeth.
[4]After Midnight's Children, Sahota went on to read The God of Small Things, A Suitable Boy and The Remains of the Day.
In an interview in January 2011, he stated: It was like I was making up for lost time – not that I had to catch up, but it was as though I couldn't quite believe this world of storytelling I had found and I wanted to get as much of it down me as I possibly could.
[7] In 2019, Sahota started teaching creative writing to undergraduates at Durham University, where he is Assistant Professor.
His second novel, The Year of the Runaways, about the experience of illegal immigrants in Britain, was published in June 2015[9] and was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.