Anuradha Roy (novelist)
Anuradha Roy is an Indian novelist, journalist and editor. She has written four novels.Biography
Roy has grown up mainly in Hyderabad, India, where she was educated at Nasr School and briefly at South Point High School in Calcutta. She studied English Literature at Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta and at the University of Cambridge. She is the co-founder with her husband, Rukun Advani, of Permanent Black, a publishing house started in 2000, where she is a designer.Writing career
Anuradha Roy's first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been translated into fifteen languages. It was named by World Literature Today as one of the "60 Essential English Language Works of Modern Indian Literature". Her second novel, The Folded Earth, won the Economist Crossword Prize and is widely translated. Sleeping on Jupiter, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Her fourth novel, All the Lives We Never Lived, won the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018, and was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018. Her essays and reviews have appeared in newspapers in India, the US and Britain.Novels
- An Atlas of Impossible Longing
- The Folded Earth
- Sleeping on Jupiter
- All The Lives We Never Lived
Awards and honors
- 2004 The Outlook/Picador India Non-Fiction Competition, "Cooking Women"
- 2011 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, The Folded Earth
- 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, longlist, The Folded Earth
- 2011 Economist Crossword Book Award, winner, The Folded Earth
- 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, Sleeping on Jupiter
- 2015 Man Booker Prize, longlist, Sleeping on Jupiter
- 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, winner, Sleeping on Jupiter
- 2018 JCB Fiction Prize, shortlist, All the Lives We Never Lived
- 2019 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, All the Lives We Never Lived
- 2019 Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018, winner, All the Lives We Never Lived
- 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018, longlist, All the Lives We Never Lived
