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.[9]
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.[9] 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[19] episode 3 of The Outlaws with Stephen Merchant for BBC One/Amazon Studios,[20] which was broadcast on BBC One on 8 November 2021.
She lives in North London.[21]
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^"How We Met: Stephen Merchant & Nikita Lalwani". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
^"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.
^Costa Book Awards, September 30 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
^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.
^"The 2008 Prize, Desmond Elliott Prize". Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
^Guy Dammann (27 June 2008). "Nikita Lalwani's Gifted wins Desmond Elliott Prize". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
^Doshi, Tishani (22 June 2012). "The Village by Nikita Lalwani - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^ abc"Royal Society of Literature » Nikita Lalwani". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^"An infectious cause". India Today. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
^Flood, Alison (17 April 2013). "Orwell prize shortlist led by posthumous Marie Colvin collection". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^"Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' wins Encore Award 2019". The Times of India. 15 June 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^"Resist: Stories of Uprising" at Amazon.
^"Stories of Uprising: Comma Press' Resist anthology - The Skinny". theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^Cosslett, Rhiannon Lucy (April 2020). "You People by Nikita Lalwani review – the limits of compassion". The Guardian.
^"You People"
^"AN INTERVIEW WITH NIKITA LALWANI, AUTHOR OF YOU PEOPLE".
^Briefly reviewed in the June 21, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.61.
^"Nikita Lalwani". IMDb.
^"The Outlaws". BBC.
^"Nikita Lalwani". nikitalalwani.com. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
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