Anuradha Roy (novelist) explained

Anuradha Roy (novelist) should not be confused with Arundhati Roy.

Anuradha Roy
Birth Place:Calcutta
Occupation:Novelist
Genre:Novel, postcolonial
Spouse:Rukun Advani
Subject:Post-modernism

Anuradha Roy (born 1967) is an Indian novelist, journalist and editor. She has written five novels: An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008), The Folded Earth (2011), Sleeping on Jupiter (2015), All the Lives We Never Lived (2018), and The Earthspinner (2021).

Biography

Roy and her husband, publisher Rukun Advani, live in Ranikhet.[1]

Career

Writing

Roy's first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, was picked up for publication after she shared initial pages with writer and publisher Christopher MacLehose, and has been translated into eighteen languages.[2] It was named by World Literature Today as one of the "60 Essential English Language Works of Modern Indian Literature".[3]

Sleeping on Jupiter, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.[4]

Her fourth novel, All the Lives We Never Lived, won the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018.[5] It was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018.[6] It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020.[7] In December 2022, it won India's most prestigious literary prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by India's literary academy to a work written in any genre in English.[8]

The Earthspinner, her fifth novel, was published by Hachette India and the Mountain Leopard Press, London, in September 2021.[9] The novel won the Sushila Devi Book Award 2022 for the best novel by a woman writer in India.[10] It was shortlisted for the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2022, as well as the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.[11] [12] In December 2023, the French translation of this novel, titled Le Cheval en Feu, was hailed by Radio France as its literary discovery of the year.[13]

Her essays and reviews have appeared in newspapers and magazines in India (Indian Express; Telegraph; The Hindu), the US (Orion and Noema) and Britain (Guardian, The Economist), and most recently in John Freeman, ed., Tales of Two Planets.[14]

Publishing

Advani and Roy founded Permanent Black, a publishing company focusing on academic literature, in 2000, and Roy is a designer for the company.[15] Roy had previously worked with Stree, an Indian independent publisher in Kolkata.[16] She was a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press, India, a job she quit in 2000.[17]

Novels

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Someshwar. Manreet Sodhi. Anuradha Roy: Past forward. 2020-09-06. Punch Magazine. en.
  2. News: 'An Atlas of Impossible Longing' Has Archeological Roots that Stretch into the Very Hills of Songarh . Lara . Jillian . 23 August 2011 . Pop Matters . 12 July 2018.
  3. Web site: 60 Essential English-Language Works of Modern Indian Literature . . 2010 . 16 January 2016.
  4. News: Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter makes it to Man Booker long list . DNA India . 15 July 2015 . 11 July 2018.
  5. Web site: HarperCollins, Anuradha Roy, Crabtree among Tata Literature Live award winners. 21 November 2018. Hindustan Times.
  6. Web site: Tenth Walter Scott Prize Longlist announced -. Rebecca. Salt. 6 March 2019. The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
  7. News: International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns among eight women on shortlist. Martin. Doyle. The Irish Times. 3 September 2020 .
  8. News: Sahitya Akademi Awards announced, Anuradha Roy among 23 winners. The Hindu. Bureau. The Hindu . 22 December 2022. www.thehindu.com.
  9. Anderson . Porter . London's Welbeck Launches a New Imprint with Christopher MacLehose . Publishing Perspectives . 23 March 2021 . 5 May 2021.
  10. Web site: Anuradha Roy's Book 'The Earthspinner' Wins 'Sushila Devi Book Award 2022'. 14 December 2022. www.millenniumpost.in.
  11. Web site: Tata Literature Live announces shortlisted titles in all categories for its 2022 literary awards. Scroll Staff. Scroll.in. 31 October 2022 .
  12. Web site: Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22. Ahona. Sengupta. 16 December 2022.
  13. Web site: "Le cheval en feu" d'Anuradha Roy : La grande découverte littéraire de cette fin d'année selon le Masque . 11 December 2023 .
  14. Web site: ANURADHA ROY: BIOGRAPHY . Web Biography, promoting female writers . 11 July 2018 .
  15. Web site: Permanent Black. 25 October 2017. Black.blogspot.com.
  16. Web site: Interview – Anuradha Roy Asia Literary Review. 2020-09-06. asialiteraryreview.com.
  17. Ticket for Two, Please. 2022-07-03. Outlook . India.
  18. News: And the prize goes to.... 5 December 2011. Outlook. 13 February 2004.
  19. News: Shortlisted work for 2011 prize. 5 December 2011. The Hindu. 25 September 2011.
  20. Web site: Man Asian Literary Awards: 5 Indians in long-list. https://web.archive.org/web/20111105052351/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/man-asian-literary-awards-5-indians-in-longlist/197388-40-100.html. 5 November 2011. 4 December 2011. Ibnlive.com. 29 October 2011.
  21. News: The Hindu's Aman Sethi bags award for A Free Man . . 19 October 2012 . 19 October 2012.
  22. Web site: Anuradha Roy, Aman Sethi win at Economist-Crossword awards . Firstpost.com . Shruti Dhapola . 19 October 2012 . 19 October 2012.
  23. News: The Hindu Prize 2015 Shortlist . The Hindu . 31 October 2015 . 2 December 2015.
  24. Web site: Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist | The Booker Prizes. thebookerprizes.com.
  25. News: Indian author Anuradha Roy wins USD 50,000 DSC Prize . Business Standard . 16 January 2015 . 16 January 2016. Press Trust of India .
  26. News: The Hindu Prize 2018 shortlists announced . The Hindu . 15 October 2018 . 13 May 2019.
  27. News: Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award – Fiction . Tata Literature Live . 30 June 2022.
  28. News: Tenth Walter Scott Prize Longlist . 30 June 2022.
  29. News: International Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced: Anuradha Roy's 'All the Lives We Never Lived' makes the cut . The Indian Express.
  30. Web site: 22 December 2022 . Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 . 22 December 2022 . Sahitya Akademi.

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