| Sonia Faleiro | |
|---|---|
| Born | Goa, India |
| Occupation | Journalist, Writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
Sonia Faleiro, (born in Goa, India) is an award-winning Indian reporter and writer. She 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 2005. India Today magazine described the book as 'epic', dazzling' and 'strangely dark''. Faleiro has reported for India Today magazine and in 2007 joined Vogue (India) as a Contributing Editor. Faleiro has contributed to several anthologies, among them AIDS Sutra: Hidden Stories from India. The Guardian described her essay in AIDS Sutra as 'urgent' and 'stark'. Faleiro's second book, Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars' is a work of narrative non fiction, based on five years of research in Bombay's dance bars. Beautiful Thing has been described as 'brilliant and unforgettable, a book by a writer who is one of the best of her generation'. It was Time Out magazine's 'Subcontinental Book of the Year, 2010' and 'CNN's Mumbai Book of the Year' . Beautiful Thing is being translated into several languages and will be published in Australia (May, 2011), the UK (August, 2011), and in the US (March, 2012).
Faleiro lives in San Francisco.
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Sonia Faleiro has reported for India Today and Tehelka magazines, and is currently a contributing editor to Vogue (India). Her reportage includes numerous reports on India's sex-workers,[1] on Bombay's bar dancers,[2] a six-part series on India's domestic workers,[3] and extensive writings on the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha.[4]
She is the recipient of a CNN Young Journalist Award (2006),[5][6][7] as well as of awards from the Ratan Tata Trust, the Oxford Cambridge Society of India, and the British Council's de Souza Trust.