Nikita Lalwani

Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff, Wales.[1]

Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She studied English at Bristol University.[2]

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

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

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

She lives in North London.[11] In 2013, Lalwani was a book judge for the Orwell Prize.[12] 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 Prize in 2019.[13] In the same year, she contributed to the anthology Resist: Stories of Uprising].[14][15] Her novel You People, set in a West London pizzeria where most of the staff are illegal immigrants, was published in 2020.[16]

References
  1. "Nikita Lalwani". Penguin Books. 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
  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. "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. "Nikita Lalwani". nikitalalwani.com. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  12. Flood, Alison (17 April 2013). "Orwell prize shortlist led by posthumous Marie Colvin collection". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  13. "Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' wins Encore Award 2019". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  14. "Resist: Stories of Uprising" at Amazon.
  15. "Stories of Uprising: Comma Press' Resist anthology - The Skinny". theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  16. "You People" at Penguin.
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