Nilanjana Roy

"Nilanjana S Roy is the author of the bestselling novel, Black River, noir fiction set in and around the edges of Delhi, about the aftermath of a terrible murder in Teetarpur and grief, love and friendship in a time of a thousand tiny fractures. She has also published two award-winning fantasy novels (The Wildings and The Hundred Names of Darkness) and a collection of essays on reading (The Girl Who Ate Books). Black River, her third novel and her first for an adult audience, is coming out in 2022.Her anthologies include Our Freedoms: Essays and Stories From India’s Best Writers, A Matter Of Taste: The Penguin Book Of Indian Food Writing, and Patriots, Poets & Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee’s The Modern Review. She writes about books and the reading life for the FT’s Life & Arts section, was a contributing opinion writer on gender and other subjects for the New York Times, and has written extensively for the BBC, the Business Standard and other places. She helped to set up the Indian publishing house, Westland Books, as its first chief editor, is a founder member of PEN Delhi, and has served on several literary juries, festival boards, gender and literacy trusts.Before she became a full-time novelist, Nilanjana worked as a food columnist, a travel writer, a reporter and columnist on gender and gender violence, an editor, a publisher, was briefly a legal researcher, taught even more briefly in a nursery school and spent several happy years as an intrepid blogger, Hurree Babu over at the now defunct Kitabkhana. "