Education
She studied English at Bristol University.
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Nikita Lalwani
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Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. Lalwani was also nominated as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She donated the £10,000 prize to human rights campaigners, Liberty.
Lalwani"s second book, The Village, was published in 2012 and selected as one of eight titles for the Fiction Uncovered campaign for the best of British fiction in 2013.
Lalwani has contributed to The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Observer and also written for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Sutra, an anthology exploring the lives of people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in India. She lives in North London.
Achievements
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Her first book, Gifted, was longlisted for the Manitoba Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. In June 2008, Lalwani won the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize for Fiction. In 2013, Lalwani was a book judge for the Orwell Prize, Britain"s most prestigious prize for political writing.
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