Summary
Sonia Faleiro (born 1977) is an Indian writer and Journalist. Her first novel The Girl was published by Viking in 2006. This was followed by Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars (2010), and the e-single 13 Men (2015). The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing was published in January, 2021.[1]
Sonia Faleiro | |
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| Born | Goa, India |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Website | |
| soniafaleiro | |
Early life and education edit
Faleiro was born in Goa,[2] grew up in New Delhi where she studied history at St. Stephen's College, and received her master's degree from the University of Edinburgh. While in graduate school, Faleiro started writing her first novel, The Girl, which was published by Penguin Viking in 2006.[citation needed]
Awards edit
Faleiro was awarded the 2011 Karmaveer Puraskaar for Social Justice for "drawing attention to India's most vulnerable and writing about them with sensitivity, humanity and integrity".[3] She is the recipient of a runners-up award in the CNN Young Journalist Award of 2006.[4]
Bibliography edit
- The Girl (Penguin Viking, 2006)
- First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing From India II (Penguin, 2006)
- Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa (Penguin, 2006)
- The Fiction Collection: Twenty Years of Penguin India (Penguin, 2007)
- India (ISBN Edizioni, 2008)
- AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Random House, Vintage, Anchor Books, Mondadori, August 2008)
- Sarpanch Sahib: Changing the Face of India (Harper Litmus, 2009)
- Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars (Penguin, India, October 2010)
- 13 Men (Deca, US, October 2015)
- The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing (Penguin, 2021)
Personal life edit
Sonia Faleiro is the daughter of veteran Indian National Congress politician Eduardo Faleiro.[5]
References edit
- ^ Service, Tribune News. "Sonia Faleiro's The Good Girls is a tale of retribution for patriarchy". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ Baher, Olivia (June 2012). "Beautiful Thing a Breakout Book for Sonia Faleiro". Noe Valley Voice. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "Recognising talent". The Hindu. 22 December 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ^ "From Raia to Delhi, and then to the world". The Times of India. 16 August 2015. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 11 January 2024.