Brannavan Gnanalingam

• Comment: Short and long-listed for literary awards but not a winner. Not sure if that would establish notability. Bkissin (talk) 14:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: Marking as under review until the MFD finishes. Please revert these additions if the page is kept. Primefac (talk) 13:46, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: The same issues outlined by previous reviewers remain. Its not clear how this subject might meet notability guidelines. MadeYourReadThis (talk) 20:32, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

{{AFC comment|1=Fails WP:AUTHOR as well as WP:GNG. I recommend removing all the non-reliable sources and working from there. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:03, 3 June 2014 (UTC)}

Mjwellington (talk) 14:43, 25 March 2018 (UTC) Author now short-listed for official book awards novel of the year. This might not register with US or UK reviewers but its a terrible insult to smaller countries if high calibre artists like this are rejected for inclusion. https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/06-03-2018/diana-brannavan-and-the-others-announcing-the-2018-ockham-national-book-awards-shortlist/

Mjwellington (talk) 22:44, 31 March 2018 (UTC) The reviewers of this are clearly not aware of the sources that confer respect for authors in New Zealand. Both the Listener and Landfall are the premier sites of record and have multiple reviews of this authors work. These books are very NZ focussed and as such their appeal to international media is rare. Its very frustrating to have non-NZ reviewers assume they know what counts as notable secondary sources as there is nothing beyond that which is cited that would confer any more credibility.

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Brannavan Gnanalingam

Brannavan Gnanalingam
Born	1983 Sri Lanka
Citizenship	New Zealand
Occupation(s)	Author, Lawyer

Brannavan Gnanalingam (born 1983, Sri Lanka) is a New Zealand author and practicing lawyer with the New Zealand firm Buddle Findlay at its Wellington office.

Gnanalingam was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Lower Hutt. His debut novel Getting Under Sail was published by Lawrence and Gibson in 2011. The novel was based on a trip Gnanalingam undertook with two friends from Morocco to Ghana, which included being mistakenly detained for the French tourist killings in Mauritania. The book was praised for "the narrator’s wry honesty, miles away from the usual Africa travelogue clichés". In 2013 his second novel You Should Have Come Here When You Were Not Here was published and received positive reviews in New Zealand. The book follows a trip by a middle-aged woman to Paris, who instead of finding it the city of love, experiences it as a cold and disorienting place. The book was based on Gnanalingam's time spent in Paris between 2012 and 2013His third novel, Credit in the Straight World (2015), "a satirical account of the global financial crisis," was reviewed in Landfall, a New Zealand literary journal established in 1947, which The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English describes as: "the single most important journal in New Zealand literary history."

His fourth novel, A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse (2016), was long-listed for the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards novel of the year. His fifth novel published in 2017, Sodden Downstream, was short-listed for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards novel of the year with The Spinoff books editor Steve Braunias noting that his inclusion was "a particularly good call." In a review of the book The Pantograph Punch said, "His rendition of Kiwi idiom is some of the best you’ll read." Gnanlingam confessed to The Dominion Post, talking about Sodden Downstream, "...[T]here are so few Sri Lankan characters in New Zealand literature. I wanted to reflect that....It's...based on the fact that the Sri Lankan Civil War was something that my family and I went through, so I can write from personal experience."

From 2006-2016, Gnanalingam contributed to the online publication The Lumière Reader, which is now on hiatus. He covered film festivals such as Venice, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Cannes when writing for this publication. He has also written for The Spinoff, The New Zealand Listener, and The Dominion Post.

Select Publications

Brannavan Gnanalingam, Sodden Downstream (Wellington: Lawrence & Gibson, 2017). ISBN 9780473410292

Brannavan Gnanalingam, A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse (Wellington: Lawrence & Gibson, 2016). ISBN 9780473356347

Brannavan Gnanalingam, Credit in the Straight World (Wellington: Lawrence & Gibson, 2015). ISBN 9780473319106

Brannavan Gnanalingam, You Should Have Come Here When You Were Not Here (Wellington: Lawrence & Gibson, 2013). ISBN 9780473257187

Brannavan Gnanalingam, Getting Under Sail (Wellington: Lawrence & Gibson, 2011). ISBN 9780473184674