Meet the team
Suresh Ariaratnam - Board Member
Suresh Ariaratnam is a literary and talent agent currently advising and acting on behalf of the multi-disciplinary artists, Jay Bernard and Johnny Pitts. Suresh has represented prize-winning clients, including recipients of the TS Eliot Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, and the Leipzig Book Prize, amongst others.
Suresh has focused on championing equality of opportunity and of outcome for authors from minoritised ethnicities, he remains involved in helping to ensure the equitable treatment of people from marginalised communities, in the creative economy and more generally.
As a non-executive director for NHS Somerset, where he chairs the Primary Care Commissioning Committee, and at NHS Dorset HealthCare, he is especially interested in the socio-economic determinants of health; as well as a holistic understanding of wellbeing which champions the interdependency between personal, societal, and planetary health.
Suresh serves as co-chair of Literature Works, the writer development agency for south-west England, as a trustee of the Trussell Trust, where he chairs the Strategy and Impact Committee, and as a member of the British Library Advisory Council. In 2022, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset in 2024.
