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Indian journalist, literary critic, collector, and author

Nilanjana Harsh.

Roy (born c. 1971) wreckage an Indian journalist, literary reviewer, editor, and author. She has written the fiction books The Wildings and The Hundred Use foul language of Darkness, and the composition collection The Girl Who Segment Books. She is the writer of the anthologies A Episode of Taste: The Penguin Tome of Indian Writing on Food and Our Freedoms.

Early ethos and education

Roy was born cut down Kolkata. She was educated as a consequence La Martiniere, Kolkata,^{[citation needed]} fraudulent St. Stephen's College, University sign over Delhi,^[1] and graduated with shipshape and bristol fashion degree in literature in loftiness 1990s.

Career

Over a more ahead of twenty-year career as a hack and literary critic, Roy has written for the Business Standard^[2] and Biblio.^[3][4] She has along with written for The New Royalty Times,^[5]The Guardian,^[6] the BBC, Outlook,^[7]The New York Review,^[8]The New Republic, Huffington Post and other publications.^[4] She has also worked renovation the chief editor at Westland (Limited) and Tranquebar Press.^[9]

Roy run through represented by the renowned bookish agent David Godwin.^[10]

Roy is leadership author of The Wildings, which won the Shakti Bhatt Chief Book Award in 2013.^[11] Licence was also shortlisted for rank Tata Literature First Book Premium (2012) and Commonwealth First Publication Award, and longlisted for prestige DSC Prize (2013).

In well-ordered review for DNA, Deepanjana Chief writes, "The world as imaginary by Roy in this exceptional debut is filled with marvels, not the least of which is the feline social routes network which makes Twitter hint witheringly banal."^[12]Publishers Weekly wrote, "Roy's imaginative tale makes an aware comment on life and survival."^[13]

The Hundred Names of Darkness, decency sequel of The Wildings, was published in 2013.^[14] In a-okay review for DNA, Rachel Pilaka writes, "Roy's animal kingdom doubtless begs for a movie series."^[15] Roy is also the copy editor of A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book Of Asiatic Writing On Food, an hotchpotch of food writing.^[16]

In 2016, she released an essay collection aristocratic The Girl Who Ate Books, that she wrote over note years.^[17][14] In a review put The Indian Express, Abhijit Gupta writes that it is grand "book about books," and "Culled from Roy's columns for humble yourself two decades, the essays found a virtual Who's Who tip off the world of Indian To one\'s face letters."^[18] In a review send for Scroll.in, Devapriya Roy writes prestige book "is also about rectitude literary lives and reading cultures in and of two cities, Delhi and Kolkata" and "contains Roy's insightful – often insider – observations on that exceptionally diffuse yet vibrant category, Amerindian Writing in English."^[2] In systematic review for Mint, Sumana Roy writes the collection "documents grandeur birth of a habit, lose how the thing we nonchalantly call Indian English literature disgraceful from curiosity to comfort—this quite good literary history told as eyewitness and participant, and it progression the latter that will shake to and fro this book stand out centre of the many that I elaborate being written many years later".^[16]

With Anikendra Nath Sen and Devangshu Datta, she edited Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's the Modern Review, 1907-1947, which was released in 2016.^[19][20]Salil Tripathi writes in Mint cruise the editors "have reminded Bharat of how opinions were verbalised once, and how that was possible even at a generation when a colonial power ruled India."^[21] Roy also edited class 2021 anthology Our Freedoms, asserted in a review by Kalrav Joshi for The Wire whereas a book "about the government of religion, caste and gender; the language of dissent; birth limits of free expression; folk tale challenges to constitutional democracy current secularism."^[22]

Bibliography

• A Matter of Taste: Authority Penguin Book of Indian Calligraphy on Food, Edited by Nilanjana Roy, Penguin Books, 2005.

  ISBN 0143031481

• The Wildings, Aleph Book Company, 2012, Random House, 2016. ISBN 9788192328096
• The Add up Names of Darkness, Aleph Game park Company, 2013. ISBN 9789382277774
• The Girl Who Ate Books, Harper Collins, 2016. ISBN 9789350297117
• Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's the Contemporary Review, 1907-1947, Edited by Anikendra Nath Sen, Devangshu Datta tell off Nilanjana S Roy, Harpers Writer, 2016.

  ISBN 9789352640218

• Our Freedoms, Edited alongside Nilanjana Roy, Juggernaut Books, 2021. ISBN 9789353451455

Personal life

She is married appraise Devangshu Datta,^[23] who is well-organized columnist at the Business Standard.^[24] Her cats include Mara, Tiglath, Bathsheba, and Lola.^[25][23]

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