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
Roy and her husband, publisher Rukun Advani, live in
Ranikhet
Ranikhet ( Kumaoni: ) is a hill station and cantonment town, nearby Almora Town in Almora district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the home for the Military Hospital, Kumaon Regiment (KRC) and Naga Regiment and is maintained by the In ...
.
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
Christopher Colin MacLehose CBE, Hon. FRSL (born 12 July 1940)Nicholas Wroe"Christopher MacLehose: A life in publishing", ''The Guardian'', 28 December 2012. is a British publisher notable as publisher of Harvill Press (from 1984 to 2004), wher ...
, and has been translated into eighteen languages.
It was named by ''
World Literature Today
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'' as one of the "60 Essential English Language Works of Modern Indian Literature".
''
Sleeping on Jupiter'', her third novel, won the
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an international literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South AsiaNote: South Asia for the purposes of the prize is defined as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka ...
and was longlisted 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. It was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020. 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.
''The Earthspinner'', her fifth novel, was published by
Hachette India
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** French language, which originated in France, ...
and the Mountain Leopard Press, London, in September 2021. It won the Sushila Devi Book Award 2022 for the best novel by a woman writer in India. It was shortlisted for the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2022, as well as the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.
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''.
Publishing
Advani and Roy founded Permanent Black, a publishing company focusing on academic literature, in 2000, and Roy is a designer for the company.
Roy had previously worked with Stree, an Indian independent publisher in Kolkata. She was a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press, India, a job she quit in 2000.
Novels
* ''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
*2004 The Outlook/Picador India Non-Fiction Competition, "Cooking Women"
*2011
The Hindu Literary Prize
''The Hindu'' Literary Prize or ''The Hindu'' Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by ''The Hindu Literary Review'' which is part of the newspaper ''The Hindu''. It recognizes Indian works in English and ...
, shortlist, ''The Folded Earth''
*2011
Man Asian Literary Prize
The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year. It is awarded to writer ...
, longlist, ''The Folded Earth''
*2011
Economist Crossword Book Award
The Crossword Book Award (formerly known as the Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), the Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), the Vodafone Crossword Book Award (2008–10), the Economist Crossword Book Award (2011–13), Raymond & Crossword Bo ...
, winner, ''The Folded Earth''
*2015
The Hindu Literary Prize
''The Hindu'' Literary Prize or ''The Hindu'' Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by ''The Hindu Literary Review'' which is part of the newspaper ''The Hindu''. It recognizes Indian works in English and ...
, shortlist, ''Sleeping on Jupiter''
*2015
Man Booker Prize, longlist, ''Sleeping on Jupiter''
*2016
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an international literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South AsiaNote: South Asia for the purposes of the prize is defined as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka ...
, winner, ''Sleeping on Jupiter''
*2018
JCB Prize
JCB Prize for Literature is an Indian literary award established in 2018. It is awarded annually with prize to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer working in English or translated fiction by an Indian writer. The winners will be an ...
, shortlist, ''All the Lives We Never Lived
*2019
The Hindu Literary Prize
''The Hindu'' Literary Prize or ''The Hindu'' Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by ''The Hindu Literary Review'' which is part of the newspaper ''The Hindu''. It recognizes Indian works in English and ...
, 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
for Historical Fiction 2018, longlist, ''All the Lives We Never Lived''
* 2020
International Dublin Literary Award 2020, shortlist, ''All the Lives We Never Lived''
* 2022
Sushila Devi Award for Best Novel 2022 Susheela or Sushila is an Indian name. People with the name include:
* P. Susheela, Indian playback singer
* Susheela Raman
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, winner, ''The Earthspinner'' and Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022, shortlisted.
* 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, All the Lives We Never Lived
References
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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