Anuradha Roy (novelist)
Anuradha Roy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 (age 56–57)[1] Calcutta |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | |
| Genre | Novel, postcolonial |
| Subject | Post-modernism |
| Spouse | Rukun Advani |
| Website | |
| anuradharoy | |
Anuradha Roy 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[edit]
Roy and her husband, publisher Rukun Advani, live in Ranikhet.[2]
Career[edit]
Writing[edit]
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.[1][3] It was named by World Literature Today as one of the "60 Essential English Language Works of Modern Indian Literature".[4]
Sleeping on Jupiter, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.[5]
Her fourth novel, All the Lives We Never Lived, won the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018.[6] It was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018.[7] It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020.[8] 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.[9]
The Earthspinner, her fifth novel, was published by Hachette India and the Mountain Leopard Press, London, in September 2021.[10] It won the Sushila Devi Book Award 2022 for the best novel by a woman writer in India.[11] It was shortlisted for the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2022, as well as the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.[12][13] 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.[14]
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.[1]
Publishing[edit]
Advani and Roy founded Permanent Black, a publishing company focusing on academic literature, in 2000, and Roy is a designer for the company.[1][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[edit]
- An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008)
- The Folded Earth (2011)
- Sleeping on Jupiter (2015)
- All the Lives We Never Lived (2018)
- The Earthspinner (2021)
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2004 The Outlook/Picador India Non-Fiction Competition, "Cooking Women"[18]
- 2011 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, The Folded Earth[19]
- 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, longlist, The Folded Earth[20]
- 2011 Economist Crossword Book Award, winner, The Folded Earth[21][22]
- 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, Sleeping on Jupiter[23]
- 2015 Man Booker Prize, longlist, Sleeping on Jupiter[24]
- 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, winner, Sleeping on Jupiter[25]
- 2018 JCB Prize, shortlist, All the Lives We Never LivedInternational Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced: Anuradha Roy’s ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’ makes the cut
- 2019 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, All the Lives We Never Lived[26]
- 2019 Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018, winner, All the Lives We Never Lived[27]
- 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018, longlist, All the Lives We Never Lived[28]
- 2020 International Dublin Literary Award 2020, shortlist, All the Lives We Never Lived[29]
- 2022 Sushila Devi Award for Best Novel 2022, winner, The Earthspinner[11] and Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022, shortlisted.[13]
- 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, All the Lives We Never Lived[30]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "ANURADHA ROY: BIOGRAPHY". Web Biography, promoting female writers. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ Someshwar, Manreet Sodhi. "Anuradha Roy: Past forward". Punch Magazine. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ Jillian, Lara (23 August 2011). "'An Atlas of Impossible Longing' Has Archeological Roots that Stretch into the Very Hills of Songarh". Pop Matters. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "60 Essential English-Language Works of Modern Indian Literature". World Literature Today. 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ "Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter makes it to Man Booker long list". DNA India. 15 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ "HarperCollins, Anuradha Roy, Crabtree among Tata Literature Live award winners". Hindustan Times. 21 November 2018.
- ^ Salt, Rebecca (6 March 2019). "Tenth Walter Scott Prize Longlist announced -". The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
- ^ Doyle, Martin. "International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns among eight women on shortlist". The Irish Times.
- ^ Bureau, The Hindu (22 December 2022). "Sahitya Akademi Awards announced, Anuradha Roy among 23 winners" – via www.thehindu.com.
- ^ Anderson, Porter (23 March 2021). "London's Welbeck Launches a New Imprint with Christopher MacLehose". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Anuradha Roy's Book 'The Earthspinner' Wins 'Sushila Devi Book Award 2022'". www.millenniumpost.in. 14 December 2022.
- ^ Scroll Staff. "Tata Literature Live announces shortlisted titles in all categories for its 2022 literary awards". Scroll.in.
- ^ a b Sengupta, Ahona (16 December 2022). "Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22".
- ^ https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/le-cheval-en-feu-d-anuradha-roy-la-grande-decouverte-litteraire-de-cette-fin-d-annee-selon-le-masque-7444164
- ^ "Permanent Black". Black.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ "Interview – Anuradha Roy | Asia Literary Review". asialiteraryreview.com. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ "Ticket for Two, Please". Outlook. India. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ "And the prize goes to..." Outlook. 13 February 2004. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
- ^ "Shortlisted work for 2011 prize". The Hindu. 25 September 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
- ^ "Man Asian Literary Awards: 5 Indians in long-list". Ibnlive.com. 29 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 November 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ "The Hindu's Aman Sethi bags award for A Free Man". The Hindu. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ Shruti Dhapola (19 October 2012). "Anuradha Roy, Aman Sethi win at Economist-Crossword awards". Firstpost.com. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ "The Hindu Prize 2015 Shortlist". The Hindu. 31 October 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- ^ "Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com.
- ^ "Indian author Anuradha Roy wins USD 50,000 DSC Prize". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ "The Hindu Prize 2018 shortlists announced". The Hindu. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award – Fiction". Tata Literature Live. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "Tenth Walter Scott Prize Longlist". Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "International Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced: Anuradha Roy's 'All the Lives We Never Lived' makes the cut". The Indian Express.
- ^ "Sahitya Akademi Award 2022" (PDF). Sahitya Akademi. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- 1967 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Indian novelists
- 21st-century Indian women writers
- Indian women novelists
- Novelists from Andhra Pradesh
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Women writers from Andhra Pradesh
- Writers from Hyderabad, India
- Writers from Kolkata
- Indian potters
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English