Anuradha Roy

1967–

Indian novelist, journalist and editor whose fiction is set mostly in India. Born in Calcutta, she studied at the University of Calcutta and the University of Cambridge and worked at Oxford University Press before co-founding the academic press Permanent Black with her husband, Rukun Advani, in 2000. She lives in Ranikhet. Her earlier novels are An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008) and The Folded Earth (2011). Sleeping on Jupiter (2015), set in a temple town by the sea, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of Anuradha Roy’s life

Works

• Sleeping on Jupiter (2015)

Prizes

• Sleeping on Jupiter — The Booker Prize 2015: Longlist