Anvar Khan

Anvar is a writer, broadcaster and columnist.  She first started getting noticed at 21 when a short story and a poem she had written were short-listed and published in a book showcasing the best of Scottish fiction.   After becoming the self appointed music, fashion and features editor of a YTS “work-for-free magazine” she became noticed by the Glasgow Herald and became a freelance contributor to the paper.

She won the UK Press Gazette Feature Writer of the Year Award and was runner up in The Jasmine literary Awards.  She has written for most of the UK’s major newspapers and has worked as a presenter on radio and television, famously conducting the interview in which Greg Dyke admitted that the BBC was “hideously white”.

Anvar's first book is PRETTY WILD – the most honest diary about men, women and sex you’ll ever read.

Her next project, The Female Warrior, will be an exploration and an explanation of why women are distancing themselves from traditional roles in order to become revolutionaries in the sex war. It¹s about thinking outside the box women have been put in by men. Far from citing a male conspiracy, the Female Warrior seeks to find out why modern women still allow themselves to be defined by men and society.  It is  the inevitable conclusion of being brought up as a Muslim girl by a father who believed that women were to be kept in their place and that their personality should be shaped by their value on the marriage market. It is the result of knowing too many men with too many hang-ups and a strict belief in double standards.