Anuradha Roy’s  2018 novel All the Lives We Never Lived has just won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2022. The Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022 were announced for 23 languages include seven poetry collections, six novels, two story collections, two literary criticisms, three plays and one autobiography. Roy is the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, The […]

Award-winning author Anuradha Roy came out with her recent book The Earthspinner this year. Heavily influenced by the world of pottery, the book narrates the stories of its protagonists and how they fare in the society constantly changing. Roy has been nominated for many prestigious awards over the years. The long list of such nominations […]

A year end round up, a list of best female fiction authors. How many of them have you read?

I think other people’s words and ideas are like fertilizer; your own don’t develop, grow or change without them. We catch up with Anuradha Roy on her writing, nationalism, men-women relationships in her books and more.

All The Lives We Never Lived has been selected from a list of 156 novels submitted by library systems in 119 cities in 40 countries. This novel is Anuradha Roy’s fourth novel and is also the winner of the Tata Literature Live Book of the Year Award (2018).

The female narrative is traditionally overwritten by societal roles – Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter. But what about the woman? Anuradha Roy’s All The Lives We Never Lived explores the meaning and effects of childhood, motherhood, family, ambition and nationalism through multiple perspectives and experiences – think an Indian female artist, a German artist and adventurer, […]

I keep thinking it must be a mistake says the author…