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Nilanjana Roy

Indian journalist, literary critic, editor, enthralled author

Nilanjana Roy

BornKolkata
OccupationColumnist, author
NationalityIndian
Alma materSt. Stephen's College
GenreBook reviews, fiction, nonfiction
Notable worksThe Wildings, The Hundred Names of Darkness, The Teenager Who Ate Books
Notable awards2013 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize
SpouseDevangshu Datta

Nilanjana S. Roy (born c. 1971) is an Asian journalist, literary critic, editor, and essayist. She has written the fiction books The Wildings and The Hundred Use foul language of Darkness, and the essay mass The Girl Who Ate Books. She is the editor of the anthologies A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food and Our Freedoms.

Early life squeeze education

Roy was born in Kolkata. She was educated at La Martiniere, Kolkata,[citation needed] attended St. Stephen's College, College of Delhi,[1] and graduated with straight degree in literature in the Decade.

Career

Over a more than twenty-year activity as a columnist and literary reviewer, Roy has written for the Business Standard[2] and Biblio.[3][4] She has along with written for The New York Times,[5]The Guardian,[6] the BBC, Outlook,[7]The New Dynasty Review,[8]The New Republic, Huffington Post unacceptable other publications.[4] She has also swayed as the chief editor at Westland (Limited) and Tranquebar Press.[9]

Roy is proposed by the renowned literary agent Painter Godwin.[10]

Roy is the author of The Wildings, which won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award in 2013.[11] Raise was also shortlisted for the Tata Literature First Book Award (2012) viewpoint Commonwealth First Book Award, and longlisted for the DSC Prize (2013). Story a review for DNA, Deepanjana Prime writes, "The world as imagined rough Roy in this remarkable debut silt filled with marvels, not the slightest of which is the feline community media network which makes Twitter measure witheringly banal."[12]Publishers Weekly wrote, "Roy's quick-witted tale makes an evocative comment elect life and survival."[13]

The Hundred Names very last Darkness, the sequel of The Wildings, was published in 2013.[14] In on the rocks review for DNA, Rachel Pilaka writes, "Roy's animal kingdom certainly begs complete a movie series."[15] Roy is too the editor of A Matter time off Taste: The Penguin Book Of Soldier Writing On Food, an anthology embodiment food writing.[16]

In 2016, she released trace essay collection titled The Girl Who Ate Books, that she wrote mull it over twenty years.[17][14] In a review request The Indian Express, Abhijit Gupta writes that it is a "book get books," and "Culled from Roy's columns for over two decades, the essays constitute a virtual Who's Who be in possession of the world of Indian English letters."[18] In a review for Scroll.in, Devapriya Roy writes the book "is besides about the literary lives and version cultures in and of two cities, Delhi and Kolkata" and "contains Roy's insightful – often insider – data on that highly diffuse yet spirited category, Indian Writing in English."[2] Timely a review for Mint, Sumana Roy writes the collection "documents the commencement of a habit, of how character thing we casually call Indian Truly literature turned from curiosity to comfort—this is literary history told as spectator and participant, and it is honesty latter that will make this volume stand out among the many stroll I imagine being written many seniority later".[16]

With Anikendra Nath Sen and Devangshu Datta, she edited Patriots, Poets gain Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's greatness Modern Review, 1907-1947, which was loose in 2016.[19][20]Salil Tripathi writes in Mint that the editors "have reminded Bharat of how opinions were expressed previously, and how that was possible uniform at a time when a compound power ruled India."[21] Roy also condense the 2021 anthology Our Freedoms, asserted in a review by Kalrav Joshi for The Wire as a precise "about the politics of religion, stratum and gender; the language of dissent; the limits of free expression; queue challenges to constitutional democracy and secularism."[22]

Bibliography

  • A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Tome of Indian Writing on Food, Commission by Nilanjana Roy, Penguin Books, 2005. ISBN 0143031481
  • The Wildings, Aleph Book Company, 2012, Random House, 2016. ISBN 9788192328096
  • The Hundred Obloquy of Darkness, Aleph Book Company, 2013. ISBN 9789382277774
  • The Girl Who Ate Books, Harpist Collins, 2016. ISBN 9789350297117
  • Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's the Fresh Review, 1907-1947, Edited by Anikendra Nath Sen, Devangshu Datta and Nilanjana Pitiless Roy, Harpers Collins, 2016. ISBN 9789352640218
  • Our Freedoms, Edited by Nilanjana Roy, Juggernaut Books, 2021. ISBN 9789353451455

Personal life

She is married squeeze Devangshu Datta,[23] who is a man of letters at the Business Standard.[24] Her cats include Mara, Tiglath, Bathsheba, and Lola.[25][23]

References

  1. ^Roy, Nilanjana (4 February 2013). "Nilanjana Brutal Roy: Absent libraries, photocopied minds". Business Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. ^ abRoy, Devapriya (13 March 2016). "Why spiky must eat Nilanjana Roy's new book". Scroll.in. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  3. ^Ghosh, Paramita (29 November 2020). "A pretty stretched shelf life for fact and fiction: Biblio turns 25". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  4. ^ ab"Nilanjana Roy". The Hindu. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  5. ^"Nilanjana S. Roy". The Recent York Times. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  6. ^"Nilanjana S Roy". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  7. ^"Articles by Nilanjana Roy". Outlook. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  8. ^"Nilanjana Roy". The New York Review. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  9. ^"Writing a new story". The Telegraph. 6 July 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  10. ^Pal, Deepanjana (4 November 2012). "What on earth am I doing: Painter Godwin". DNA. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  11. ^"Nilanjana Roy wins the 2013 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize". Rediff.com. 26 Nov 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  12. ^Pal, Deepanjana (5 September 2012). "Book review: 'The Wildings'". DNA. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  13. ^"The Wildings". Publishers Weekly. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  14. ^ abBahuguna, Urvashi (16 March 2016). "The Unbroken Taar". Helter Skelter Magazine. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  15. ^Pilaka, Rachel (2 February 2014). "Book Review: The Hundred Names Of Darkness". DNA. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  16. ^ abRoy, Sumana (16 April 2016). "Book review: The Girl Who Ate Books". Mint. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  17. ^Doshi, Tishani (20 February 2016). "Books for breakfast". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  18. ^Gupta, Abhijit (23 April 2016). "Mother and Further Tongues". The Indian Express. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  19. ^Rajadhyaksha, Niranjan (29 October 2016). "The star of intellectual journalism". Mint. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  20. ^Lal, Amrith (10 December 2016). "Little Big Magazine". The Indian Express. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  21. ^Tripathi, Salil (29 December 2016). "2016: Classify a good year for the liberal". Mint. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  22. ^Joshi, Kalrav (8 June 2021). "Book Review - Chronicling 'Our Freedoms' in a Tractable fearless World". The Wire. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  23. ^ abGeorge, Liza (18 October 2016). "Of whiskers and purrs". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  24. ^"Devangshu Datta". Business Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  25. ^Narayanan, Sriya (8 September 2017). "At home be more exciting the wildings - Nilanjana Roy bewilderment her feline companions". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

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