Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal at the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards.

Parul Sehgal is a literary critic who is published in numerous literary magazines and newspapers. She is also an editor at The New York Times Book Review.[1]

Parul Sehgal was born to Indian parents and she grew up in India, Hungary, the Philippines and Northern Virginia.[2] She studied political science at McGill University.[2] After graduation she returned to Delhi to work at an NGO.[2] She then returned to the US where she receive an MFA from Columbia University, after which she obtained an editing position at Publishers Weekly.[2] She also published literary criticism in Bookforum, Slate, Tin House, NPR.org, the Literary Review, O Magazine, The Plain Dealer, The Irish Times, and Time Out New York.

For her literary criticism, Sehgal received the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.[3] She won the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum’s OneWorld Prize.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parul Sehgal, About page
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Scott McLemee (January 26, 2011). "Scott McLemee Interviews Balakian Recipient Parul Sehgal". Critical Mass. National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ "For Immediate Release: The National Book Critics Circle Finalists for 2010 Awards", by Barbara Hoffert | Jan-22-2011

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