![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020. It was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018. Her fourth novel, All the Lives We Never Lived, won the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018. Sleeping on Jupiter, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was named by World Literature Today as one of the "60 Essential English Language Works of Modern Indian Literature". 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. Roy and her husband, publisher Rukun Advani, live in Ranikhet. She has written five novels: An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008), The Folded Earth (2011), Sleeping on Jupiter (2015), All the Lives We Never Lived (2018), and The Earthspinner (2021). Anuradha Roy is an Indian novelist, journalist and editor. ![]()
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