Claim: Sahota was born in 1981 in Derby, she studied mathematics, worked in marketing but never received any award.
Evidence: Sunjeev Sahota FRSL (born 1981) is a British novelist whose first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in January 2011 and whose second novel, The Year of the Runaways, was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature in 2017. Sahota was born in 1981 in Derby, and his family moved to Chesterfield when he was seven years old. After finishing school, Sahota studied mathematics at Imperial College London. As of January 2011, he was working in marketing for the insurance company Aviva.