Nikita Lalwani

Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1973[1] and raised in Cardiff, Wales.[2]

Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She studied English at Bristol University[3]

Her first book, Gifted, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize[4] and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.[5] Lalwani was also nominated as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.[6] In June 2008, Lalwani won the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize for Fiction.[7] She donated the £10,000 prize to human rights campaigners, Liberty.[8]

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

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

She lives in North London. In 2013, Lalwani was a book judge for the Orwell Prize, Britain's most prestigious prize for political writing.Nikita is now The Fellow Of the Royal Society of Literature.

References

  1. ↑ "Nikita Lalwani". Man Booker Prize. London. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Nikita Lalwani". Penguin Books. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "How We Met: Stephen Merchant & Nikita Lalwani". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ Costa Book Awards, September 30 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  6. ↑ David Byers. "Oxford Literary Festival 2008: Young Writer of the Year". London: The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  7. ↑ The 2008 Prize, Desmond Elliott Prize
  8. ↑ Guy Dammann (27 June 2008). "Nikita Lalwani's Gifted wins Desmond Elliott Prize". London: Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  9. ↑ "An infectious cause". India Today. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2015.



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