{{short description|British-born-Indian-Canadian writer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{More footnotes needed|date=March 2020}} '''Rohan Candappa''' is a British-born-Sri Lankan-Canadian writer.
==Biography== Candappa grew up in London as a second generation immigrant. His father was originally from Ceylon and his mother from Burma.
After 15 years in advertising, Rohan wrote ''The Little Book of Stress'', which sold over 140,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1560872.The_Little_Book_of_Stress |title=The Little Book of Stress |work=Goodreads |access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref> He has since written a number of other books, including ''The Curious Incident of the WMD in Iraq'', ''Rules Britannia'', and 'Picklehead' and has also written two short films for the BBC. He has sold over 1 million books.
He lives in Crouch End, North London with his wife and two children. He claims to cook excellent food.
Rohan has also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Crouch End Festival (UK's biggest community arts festival), the fringe venue The Intimate Space and performed his writings with improvised jazz musicians at üF-Beat.
After being made redundant in 2015, Rohan turned the experience into his first spoken word show, How I Said 'F**k You' to the Company When They Tried to Make Me Redundant, which he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016.
In March 2020, during the pandemic, he set up the Lockdown Theatre Company online to support, nurture and pay actors left struggling when the theatres closed. He produced over 20 episodes featuring a wide range of actors.
==Bibliography== * {{cite book | date = July 1998 | title = The Little Book of Stress | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-186585-6 }} * ''The Stocking Filler: A Modern Fable For Christmas'' (1998) * {{cite book | date = April 1999 | title = Little Book Of Wrong Shui | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-186976-2 }} * {{cite book | date = August 2001 | title = Autobiography Of A One Year Old | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-188069-9 }} * ''Stress For Success: The New Mismanagement Revolution'' (2001) * {{cite book | date = January 2002 | title = Little Book Of The Kama Sutra | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-188068-2 }} * {{cite book | date = June 2002 | title = The Parent's Survival Handbook | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-188528-1 }} * {{cite book | date = August 2002 | title = Growing Old Disgracefully | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-188665-3 }} * {{cite book | date = August 2003 | title = University Challenged | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-188664-6 }} * ''The Little Book Of Christmas Stress'' (2003) * {{cite book | date = May 2004 | title = One Hundred Birthday Wishes | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-189694-2 }} * ''Retox Diet'' (2004) * {{cite book | date = November 2004 | title = The Curious Incident of the WMD in Iraq | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Profile Books | isbn = 978-1-86-197900-1 }} * {{cite book | date = February 2006 | title = Picklehead | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-189778-9 }} * {{cite book | date = October 2007 | title = Rules Britannia | last = Candappa | first = Rohan | publisher = Ebury Press | isbn = 978-0-09-192295-5 }}
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