Nikita Singh

Nikita Singh is an Indian novelist.^[1][2] She has written seven novels including If It's Not Forever and Love@Facebook^[3][4] In February 2013, Someone Like You, a book she co-wrote with Durjoy Datta, was released by Penguin India.^[5][6][7] It debuted at No. 5 at Hindustan Times Bestseller list.

Early life and Career

Nikita Singh was born in Patna, Bihar, where she spent the first four years of her life. She then relocated to Indore, where she went to primary school. She completed her schooling at Bridgeford School, Ranchi, in 2008. She graduated in pharmacy at the Acropolis Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research in Indore in 2012.^[8][9]

She signed a contract with Penguin Books India in 2011 and also joined Grapevine India. She wrote her first book Love @ Facebook when she was 19 years old and studying pharmacy.^[10] Love @ Facebook is a young adult book about a nineteen-year-old girl, who falls in love with a VJ, after befriending him on Facebook. Under the pseudonym Sidharth Oberoi she has also contributed to the books in "The Backbenchers" series, where she wrote the second book of the series, The Backbenchers: The Missed Call, together with Durjoy Datta. The book was released in June 2012. Singh received a Live India Young Achievers Award in 2013.^[11]

In September 2011, the sequel to Singh’s Love @ Facebook, Accidentally In Love..With Him? Again?, was published. The novel is aimed at an older audience than Love @ Facebook. In February 2012, If It’s Not Forever...It’s Not Love, which Sing co-authored with Durjoy Datta was published. The book is about a real life incident, the Delhi High Court Blast, which occurred on 7 September 2011. Deb, who was there when the blast happened, stumbled upon a half burnt diary, which had a love story written in it, that Deb decides to chase.

Singh has written seven novels.^[12] She has also spoken on various TEDx conferences in colleges across India.^[13] She is one of the highest selling Indian authors in fiction. She is also an editor in Grapevine India.^[14][15] Her latest book Right Here Right Now was released in May 2014.^{[16][17][18][19]}

Works

Books

• Love @ Facebook (2011)
• Accidentally in Love… With Him? Again? (2011)
• If It's Not Forever… It's Not Love (2012)
• The Promise (2012)
• Someone Like You (2013)
• The Unreasonable Fellows (2013)
• Right Here Right Now (2014)

References