Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (born in Watford in 1968 or 1969 ) is a British Sikh writer who has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her play Behzti (Dishonour) was cancelled by the Birmingham Rep after protests against the play by Sikhs turned violent and alleged death threats forced Bhatti to go into hiding.

Life

Bhatti's first play, Behsharam (Shameless), received criticism from the Sikh community when it opened in 2001. In 2005, Behzti won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the best English language play written by a woman. In 2010, her follow-up to Behzti titled Behud (Beyond Belief) was co-produced by Soho Theatre and Coventry Belgrade and was shortlisted for the John Whiting Award. In 2014, Khandan (Family) opened to sell-out audiences at the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. In June 2014, her first anthology of plays, Plays One (ISBN 9781783191307), was published by Oberon Books. She is now working on a stage commission for the National Theatre. Bhatti also regularly writes for The Archers, the Radio 4 drama serial.

Awards

Works

Plays

Radio, films, teleplays