Nikita Lalwani Explained

Nikita Lalwani FRSL 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 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 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 was 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. She has also written for AIDS Sutra,[10] an anthology exploring the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in India.

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. She was later a judge for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Prize 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]

She lives in North London.[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nikita Lalwani . Penguin Books . 6 November 2015 . 31 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174743/https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/nikita-lalwani/32482/ . dead .
  2. News: How We Met: Stephen Merchant & Nikita Lalwani . London . The Independent . 6 November 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090115211018/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-stephen-merchant-amp-nikita-lalwani-454217.html . 15 January 2009 .
  3. Web site: Man Booker Longlist Announced: Man Booker Prize news . Man Booker Prize . 7 August 2007 . 6 November 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120610000818/http://themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/64 . 10 June 2012 .
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20110930073009/http://www.costabookawards.com/awards/shortlist.aspx Costa Book Awards, September 30 2011.
  5. News: David Byers . Oxford Literary Festival 2008: Young Writer of the Year . The Sunday Times . 6 November 2015 . London . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080706202538/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3533658.ece . 6 July 2008 .
  6. Web site: The 2008 Prize, Desmond Elliott Prize . 7 November 2015 . 22 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170422153318/http://www.desmondelliottprize.org/previous-winners/the-2008-prize/ . dead .
  7. News: Guy Dammann . Nikita Lalwani's Gifted wins Desmond Elliott Prize. The Guardian . 27 June 2008. 10 January 2012 . London.
  8. Web site: Doshi . Tishani . The Village by Nikita Lalwani - review . The Guardian . 11 October 2019 . 22 June 2012.
  9. Web site: Royal Society of Literature » Nikita Lalwani. rsliterature.org. 11 October 2019.
  10. Web site: An infectious cause. India Today. 22 August 2008 . 6 November 2015.
  11. Web site: Flood . Alison . Orwell prize shortlist led by posthumous Marie Colvin collection . The Guardian . 11 October 2019 . 17 April 2013.
  12. News: Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' wins Encore Award 2019 . The Times of India. 15 June 2019 . en. 2019-10-17.
  13. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Protest-II-Resistance-Ra-Page/dp/1912697076 "Resist: Stories of Uprising"
  14. Web site: Stories of Uprising: Comma Press' Resist anthology - The Skinny. theskinny.co.uk. en. 2019-10-17.
  15. News: You People by Nikita Lalwani review – the limits of compassion. The Guardian . April 2020 . Cosslett . Rhiannon Lucy .
  16. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314/314497/you-people/9780241409534.html "You People"
  17. Web site: 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. Web site: BBC One - The Outlaws, Series 3, Episode 3 . BBC . 14 July 2024.
  20. Web site: Nikita Lalwani . nikitalalwani.com . 11 October 2019.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Nikita Lalwani".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.