Sonia Faleiro
Book launch: 6pm-7.30pm at King's India Institute, venue Old Committee Room (level 2 of the King's Building)
The King’s India Institute is pleased to be announce the launch of Sonia Faleiro’s first work of non-fiction – Beautiful Thing. An award-winning reporter and writer, Sonia is the author of a book of fiction, The Girl (Viking, 2006) and a contributor to numerous anthologies including AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Random House, 2008). Beautiful Thing (Hamish Hamilton India, 2010) is her first work of non-fiction and is based on five years of research in the secretive world of Bombay's dance bars. Critics in India hailed Beautiful Thing as 'a brilliant, unforgettable book by a writer who is one of the best of her generation'. The Sunday Times called it ‘a tour de force of reportage, whose depth, insight and resonance make it the equal of the best fiction’ while The Observer praised it as a ‘brilliant investigative foray into the dance bars of Bombay. Sonia was born in Goa, studied in Edinburgh, worked in Bombay, and now lives in San Francisco.
Ian Jack – award-winning journalist and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature – will be introducing a discussion between Sonia Faleiro and Dr Kriti Kapila from the Institute. This will be followed by a Q&A session.
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