Nikita Lalwani

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Nikita Lalwani FRSL is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff, Wales. [1] Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.

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She studied English at University of Bristol. [2]

Her first book, Gifted (2007), was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize [3] and shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for First Novel. [4] Lalwani was nominated as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. [5] In June 2008, she won the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize. [6] She donated the £10,000 prize to Liberty, a human rights advocacy nonprofit,. [7]

Lalwani's second book, The Village, was published in 2012 [8] and was selected as one of eight titles for the Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2013. [9]

Lalwani has contributed to The Guardian , the New Statesman and The Observer . She has also written for AIDS Sutra , [10] an anthology exploring the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in India. [9]

In 2013, Lalwani was a book judge for the Orwell Prize. [11] In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [9] She was later a judge for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award in 2019. [12] In the same year, she contributed to the anthology Resist: Stories of Uprising. [13] [14] Her novel You People, [15] set in a West London pizzeria where most of the staff are illegal immigrants, was published in 2020 by Penguin [16] and in 2021 by McSweeney's USA. [17] [18]

Lalwani co-wrote three episodes of the BBC One/Amazon Studios series The Outlaws , including two episodes with Stephen Merchant and one with Jess Bray. [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "Nikita Lalwani". Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "How We Met: Stephen Merchant & Nikita Lalwani". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Man Booker Longlist Announced: Man Booker Prize news". Man Booker Prize. 7 August 2007. Archived from the original on 10 June 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Costa Book Awards, September 30 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  5. ↑ David Byers. "Oxford Literary Festival 2008: Young Writer of the Year". The Sunday Times. London. Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "The 2008 Prize, Desmond Elliott Prize". Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Guy Dammann (27 June 2008). "Nikita Lalwani's Gifted wins Desmond Elliott Prize". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  8. ↑ Doshi, Tishani (22 June 2012). "The Village by Nikita Lalwani - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 "Royal Society of Literature » Nikita Lalwani". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  10. ↑ "An infectious cause". India Today. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  11. ↑ Flood, Alison (17 April 2013). "Orwell prize shortlist led by posthumous Marie Colvin collection". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  12. ↑ "Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' wins Encore Award 2019". The Times of India. 15 June 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  13. ↑ "Resist: Stories of Uprising" at Amazon.
  14. ↑ "Stories of Uprising: Comma Press' Resist anthology - The Skinny". theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  15. ↑ Cosslett, Rhiannon Lucy (April 2020). "You People by Nikita Lalwani review – the limits of compassion". The Guardian.
  16. ↑ "You People"
  17. ↑ "AN INTERVIEW WITH NIKITA LALWANI, AUTHOR OF YOU PEOPLE".
  18. ↑ Briefly reviewed in the June 21, 2021 issue of The New Yorker , p.61.
  19. ↑ "BBC One - The Outlaws, Series 3, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
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