Lucas Stewart

Lucas Stewart is a writer from Birkenhead and has spent 20 years living in Asia and Africa. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and former literature advisor to the British Council, his political travelogue, The People Elsewhere: Unbound Journeys with the Storytellers of Myanmar (Penguin/Viking, 2016) was shortlisted for the 2018 Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He co-edited Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds, the first anthology of short stories from Myanmar published in the UK. His own short fiction has been published in Asia and the UK winning the 2018 Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction.