Anuradha Roy (novelist)

Roy and her husband, publisher Rukun Advani, live in Ranikhet.^[2]

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, and has been translated into eighteen languages.^[1][3] It was named by World Literature Today as one of the "60 Essential English Language Works of Modern Indian Literature".^[4]

Sleeping on Jupiter, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.^[5]

Her fourth novel, All the Lives We Never Lived, won the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018.^[6] It was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018.^[7] It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020.^[8] 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.^[9]

The Earthspinner, her fifth novel, was published by Hachette India and the Mountain Leopard Press, London, in September 2021.^[10] The novel won the Sushila Devi Book Award 2022 for the best novel by a woman writer in India.^[11] It was shortlisted for the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2022, as well as the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.^[12][13] In December 2023, the French translation of this novel, titled Le Cheval en Feu, was hailed by Radio France as its literary discovery of the year.^[14]

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.^[1]

Advani and Roy founded Permanent Black, a publishing company focusing on academic literature, in 2000, and Roy is a designer for the company.^[1][15] Roy had previously worked with Stree, an Indian independent publisher in Kolkata.^[16] She was a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press, India, a job she quit in 2000.^[17]

• An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008)
• The Folded Earth (2011)
• Sleeping on Jupiter (2015)
• All the Lives We Never Lived (2018)
• The Earthspinner (2021)

• 2004 The Outlook/Picador India Non-Fiction Competition, "Cooking Women"^[18]
• 2011 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, The Folded Earth^[19]
• 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, longlist, The Folded Earth^[20]
• 2011 Economist Crossword Book Award, winner, The Folded Earth^[21][22]
• 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, Sleeping on Jupiter^[23]
• 2015 Man Booker Prize, longlist, Sleeping on Jupiter^[24]
• 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, winner, Sleeping on Jupiter^[25]
• 2018 JCB Prize, shortlist, All the Lives We Never LivedInternational Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced: Anuradha Roy’s ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’ makes the cut
• 2019 The Hindu Literary Prize, shortlist, All the Lives We Never Lived^[26]
• 2019 Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018, winner, All the Lives We Never Lived^[27]
• 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018, longlist, All the Lives We Never Lived^[28]
• 2020 International Dublin Literary Award 2020, shortlist, All the Lives We Never Lived^[29]
• 2022 Sushila Devi Award for Best Novel 2022, winner, The Earthspinner^[11] and Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022, shortlisted.^[13]
• 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, All the Lives We Never Lived^[30]