The Asian Writer catches up with Nikita Lalwani, whose second novel The Village is published this month.
The Asian Writer meets 'Gifted' Lalwani
Nikita Lalwani, author of Gifted, and winner of The Desmond Elliot Prize is my last and final interview of the weekend. I’m looking forward to it, naturally. Lalwani is amiable and approachable without being intimidating. I like that about her, she is definitely a natural and appears confident without having any air of arrogance about …
Nikita Lalwani's Gifted Glitters at the Desmond Elliot Prize 2008
Nikita Lalwani was tonight (Thursday, 26th June) named the winner of the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for Gifted, a story about a maths prodigy growing up in 1980s Cardiff, published by Penguin Books. Penny Vincenzi, Chair of the Judges, said: “Gifted is a book of extraordinary range; it is touching, tender, funny and at the …