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'''Nikita Lalwani''' is a novelist born in [[Kota, Rajasthan]] and raised in [[Cardiff]], Wales.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/nikita-lalwani/32482/ |title=Nikita Lalwani |publisher=Penguin Books |access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref>

Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She studied English at [[Bristol University]].<ref name="independent.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-stephen-merchant-amp-nikita-lalwani-454217.html |title=How We Met: Stephen Merchant & Nikita Lalwani |location=London |work=The Independent |access-date=6 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115211018/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-stephen-merchant-amp-nikita-lalwani-454217.html |archive-date=15 January 2009 }}</ref>

Her first book, ''[[Gifted (novel)|Gifted]]'' (2007), was longlisted for the [[Man Booker Prize]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/64 |title=Man Booker Longlist Announced: Man Booker Prize news |publisher=Man Booker Prize |date=7 August 2007 |access-date=6 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610000818/http://themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/64 |archive-date=10 June 2012 }}</ref> and shortlisted for the [[Costa Book Awards|Costa First Novel Award]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110930073009/http://www.costabookawards.com/awards/shortlist.aspx Costa Book Awards, September 30 2011.] Retrieved 6 November 2015.</ref> Lalwani was also nominated as [[Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award|''Sunday Times'' Young Writer of the Year]].<ref>{{cite news|author=David Byers |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3533658.ece |title=Oxford Literary Festival 2008: Young Writer of the Year |newspaper=The Sunday Times |access-date=6 November 2015 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706202538/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3533658.ece |archive-date=6 July 2008 }}</ref> In June 2008, Lalwani won the inaugural [[Desmond Elliott Prize]] for Fiction.<ref>[http://www.desmondelliottprize.org/previous-winners/the-2008-prize/ The 2008 Prize, Desmond Elliott Prize]</ref> She donated the £10,000 prize to human rights campaigners, [[Liberty (pressure group)|Liberty]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Guy Dammann |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/27/news.guydammann |title=Nikita Lalwani's Gifted wins Desmond Elliott Prize|newspaper=The Guardian |date= 27 June 2008|access-date=10 January 2012 |location=London}}</ref>

Lalwani's second book, ''The Village'', was published in 2012<ref>{{cite web |last1=Doshi |first1=Tishani |title=The Village by Nikita Lalwani - review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/22/the-village-nikita-lalwani-review |website=The Guardian |access-date=11 October 2019 |date=22 June 2012}}</ref> and selected as one of eight titles for the [[Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize|Fiction Uncovered campaign]] for the best of British fiction in 2013.<ref name="RSL">{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/nikita-lalwani/|title=Royal Society of Literature » Nikita Lalwani|website=rsliterature.org|url-status=live|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>

Lalwani has contributed to ''[[The Guardian]]'', the ''[[New Statesman]]'' and ''[[The Observer]]'' and also written for ''[[AIDS Sutra]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/An+infectious+cause/1/13581.html |title=An infectious cause|newspaper=India Today|date=22 August 2008 |access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref> an anthology exploring the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in India.<ref name=RSL />

She lives in North London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nikita Lalwani |url=https://www.nikitalalwani.com/about/ |website=nikitalalwani.com |access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref> In 2013, Lalwani was a book judge for the [[Orwell Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title=Orwell prize shortlist led by posthumous Marie Colvin collection |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/17/orwell-prize-shortlist-marie-colvin |website=The Guardian |access-date=11 October 2019 |date=17 April 2013}}</ref> In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref name=RSL /> She was later a judge for the [[Royal Society of Literature]] Encore Prize in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/sally-rooneys-normal-people-wins-encore-award-2019/articleshow/69790502.cms|title=Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' wins Encore Award 2019 |website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> In the same year, she contributed to the anthology ''Resist: Stories of Uprising]''.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Protest-II-Resistance-Ra-Page/dp/1912697076 "Resist: Stories of Uprising"] at Amazon.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/ra-page-comma-press-resist|title=Stories of Uprising: Comma Press' Resist anthology - The Skinny|website=theskinny.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> Her novel ''You People'', set in a West London pizzeria where most of the staff are illegal immigrants, was published in 2020.<ref>[https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314/314497/you-people/9780241409534.html "You People"] at Penguin.</ref>

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==External links==
* [http://www.nikitalalwani.com Author's website]

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