sentences:  He has been actively involved in organising protest campaigns in defence of victims of cultural intolerance.Awards, grants and residencies
  
  Hoskote has been a Visiting Writer and Fellow of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa (1995) and was writer-in-residence at the Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003).He has also held a writing residency as part of the Goethe-Institut/ Polnisches Institut project, "The Promised City