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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] Her novel You People, set in a West London pizzeria where most of the staff are illegal immigrants, is expected to be published on 4 June 2020.

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. ^ a b c "Royal Society of Literature » Nikita Lalwani". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 11 October 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  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. ^ "Stories of Uprising: Comma Press' Resist anthology - The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2019.



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