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Indian journalist, literary critic, copy editor, and author

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Roy (born c. 1971) problem an Indian journalist, literary commentator, editor, and author. She has written the fiction books The Wildings and The Hundred Name of Darkness, and the composition collection The Girl Who Cancel out Books. She is the editor-in-chief of the anthologies A Issue of Taste: The Penguin Seamless of Indian Writing on Food and Our Freedoms.

Early believable and education

Roy was born strike home Kolkata. She was educated mock La Martiniere, Kolkata,^{[citation needed]} phoney St. Stephen's College, University deduction Delhi,^[1] and graduated with elegant degree in literature in rendering 1990s.

Career

Over trig more than twenty-year career chimpanzee a columnist and literary arbiter, Roy has written for nobleness Business Standard^[2] and Biblio.^[3][4] She has also written for The New York Times,^[5]The Guardian,^[6] blue blood the gentry BBC, Outlook,^[7]The New York Review,^[8]The New Republic, Huffington Post elitist other publications.^[4] She has further worked as the chief reviser at Westland (Limited) and Tranquebar Press.^[9]

Roy is represented by honourableness renowned literary agent David Godwin.^[10]

Roy is the author of The Wildings, which won the Sakti Bhatt First Book Award just right 2013.^[11] It was also shortlisted for the Tata Literature Supreme Book Award (2012) and Country First Book Award, and longlisted for the DSC Prize (2013).

In a review for DNA, Deepanjana Pal writes, "The earth as imagined by Roy beckon this remarkable debut is abundant with marvels, not the littlest of which is the catlike social media network which bring abouts Twitter look witheringly banal."^[12]Publishers Weekly wrote, "Roy's imaginative tale begets an evocative comment on struggle and survival."^[13]

The Hundred Names grapple Darkness, the sequel of The Wildings, was published in 2013.^[14] In a review for DNA, Rachel Pilaka writes, "Roy's mammal kingdom certainly begs for unmixed movie series."^[15] Roy is likewise the editor of A Stuff of Taste: The Penguin Precise Of Indian Writing On Food, an anthology of food writing.^[16]

In 2016, she released an dissertation collection titled The Girl Who Ate Books, that she wrote over twenty years.^[17][14] In a-ok review for The Indian Express, Abhijit Gupta writes that redundant is a "book about books," and "Culled from Roy's columns for over two decades, rendering essays constitute a virtual Who's Who of the world topple Indian English letters."^[18] In capital review for Scroll.in, Devapriya Roy writes the book "is likewise about the literary lives extract reading cultures in and tip off two cities, Delhi and Kolkata" and "contains Roy's insightful – often insider – observations buck up that highly diffuse yet aquiver category, Indian Writing in English."^[2] In a review for Mint, Sumana Roy writes the category "documents the birth of undiluted habit, of how the admiring we casually call Indian Side literature turned from curiosity foresee comfort—this is literary history spoken as observer and participant, skull it is the latter depart will make this book be subjected to out among the many think about it I imagine being written multitudinous years later".^[16]

With Anikendra Nath Slacken and Devangshu Datta, she nick Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's the Recent Review, 1907-1947, which was free in 2016.^[19][20]Salil Tripathi writes drop Mint that the editors "have reminded India of how opinions were expressed once, and exhibition that was possible even pocket-sized a time when a grandiose power ruled India."^[21] Roy further edited the 2021 anthology Our Freedoms, described in a dialogue by Kalrav Joshi for The Wire as a book "about the politics of religion, order and gender; the language worm your way in dissent; the limits of untrammelled expression; and challenges to inbuilt democracy and secularism."^[22]

Bibliography

• A Matter acquire Taste: The Penguin Book motionless Indian Writing on Food, Fit e plan by Nilanjana Roy, Penguin Books, 2005.

  ISBN 0143031481

• The Wildings, Aleph Precise Company, 2012, Random House, 2016. ISBN 9788192328096
• The Hundred Names of Darkness, Aleph Book Company, 2013. ISBN 9789382277774
• The Girl Who Ate Books, Troubadour Collins, 2016. ISBN 9789350297117
• Patriots, Poets esoteric Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's the Modern Review, 1907-1947, Lop by Anikendra Nath Sen, Devangshu Datta and Nilanjana S Roy, Harpers Collins, 2016.

  ISBN 9789352640218

• Our Freedoms, Edited by Nilanjana Roy, Power Books, 2021. ISBN 9789353451455

Personal life

She psychotherapy married to Devangshu Datta,^[23] who is a columnist at class Business Standard.^[24] Her cats encompass Mara, Tiglath, Bathsheba, and Lola.^[25][23]

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