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| Born | December 14, 1965 Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation | Journalist, Columnist, Novelist |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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India Knight (born 1965) is a British journalist and author. She is known for her contribution to the British media, as well as her books: My Life on a Plate, Don't You Want Me?, The Shops, Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet and The Thrift Book (2008), all of which are published by Penguin books. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages.
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India Knight was born to Sabiha Rumani Malik (of a family related to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, one of the foremost leaders of the Indian freedom struggle and a renowned scholar, and poet). India’s mother was 17 years old at the time of her birth and married to Michel Aertsens Lacroix 20 years her senior (and the son of First World War hero Gaston Aertsens and Marie-Louise Lacroix of the family of Belgian statesman Henri Jaspar). Soon after her birth India’s parents separated and India lived in Brussels with her mother who, whilst continuing her studies, worked as a translator to support her daughter and herself. In 1975 her father agreed to a divorce and India’s mother married Andrew Knight, the editor of The Economist, and at age 9 India moved to London to live with her mother and stepfather. They were married for 17 years and had two daughters - Amaryllis and Afsaneh. They were divorced in 1991, and soon after, India's mother married a family friend, the architect Norman Foster; they remained married until 1995. In her semi-autobiographical novel Comfort and Joy, Knight writes about her family and her mother, and the expectations piled on 21st-century women to be perfect. India Knight began to use her stepfather's surname at the age of thirteen.[1]
Knight lives in London with her three children. Her youngest child has DiGeorge syndrome. After writing an article in The Sunday Times about her daughter's special needs, Knight launched a blog about children with special needs "for parents in a similar position to keep in touch, compare notes and help each other".
She remains married to, though separated from, Jeremy Langmead, with whom she has two sons. Langmead is the former editor of Wallpaper* magazine and Esquire magazine. Her third child's father is author Andrew O'Hagan.