Arjun Basu

Arjun Basu is a Canadian writer.^[1] He has published three award-nominated books, and was also known for his Twitter feed, on which he posted flash fiction branded as "Twisters".^[1]

Arjun Basu
Born	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	writer
Genre	novelist, short stories
Notable works	Squishy, Waiting for the Man
Website
Official website

Born and raised in Montreal to immigrant parents from India, Basu published his debut short story collection Squishy in 2008. The book was shortlisted for the ReLit Awards in 2009.^[1] His novel Waiting for the Man was published in 2014,^[2] and was a longlisted nominee for that year's Scotiabank Giller Prize.^[3] In 2025, he published his second novel, The Reeds^[4], nominated for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction by the Quebec Writers Federation.