Shubhangi Swarup | |
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![]() Swarup in Mumbai, 2018 | |
Born | 1982 (age 41–42) Nashik, Maharashtra |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | St. Anne's High School, Fort, Mumbai |
Alma mater | St. Xavier's College (Mumbai), SOAS University of London |
Notable work | Latitudes of Longing |
Website | shubhangiswarup.com |
Shubhangi Swarup (hindi - शुभांगी स्वरुप; IPA - ʃʊbʰɑ́ŋgiː svəruːp) is an Indian author, journalist and educator. She is best known for her novel Latitudes of Longing, which was published in 2018 by HarperCollins [1] and was declared a bestseller soon after its release in India, [2] [3] and Sweden. [4]
Swarup has worked as a journalist since 2008, and has written for Open, [5] The Mint [6] and also worked briefly in Zanzibar in 2011. [7]
She was the Executive Editor for ElseVR channel, India's first virtual reality (VR) journalism platform co-created by filmmaker and producer Anand Gandhi. In this capacity, she directed and wrote When Borders Move, a documentary about Hunderman, a village in Kargil that once belonged to Pakistan, was shortly in no man’s land, and now belongs to India. [8] [9]
As part of the Dekeyser and Friend’s Dance Project, Swarup was part of Fire of Anatolia, a Turkish dance group consisting of 120 dancers, several choreographers and other technical staff. [10] [11] Additionally, she has volunteered as a teacher for street children and low income groups, and co-founded the community group, Hamara Footpath, a Mumbai-based NGO dedicated to the educational needs of children who live on Mumbai’s streets. [12]
Swarup was born in Nashik [13] to Sunanda Swarup and Govind Swarup in 1982. She holds a Masters of Sciences degree in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS University of London.
Swarup began work on her first book in 2011. [14] In an interview published in The Hindu, she mentioned that it took her seven years to write the novel, and that her training as a journalist taught her ‘the value of deadlines, and sticking to them in the face of uncertainty.’. [15] [16]
Latitudes of Longing is among the first Indian novels to engage with nature as a living, heaving entity. A tectonically active fault-line running through the Indian subcontinent holds all the stories together, in lieu of a plot. Winner of the Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, the jury observed that the novel has invented a genre in itself: the fiction of nature. [17] Critically and commercially successful, the novel is in the process of being translated in 17 different languages. [18] It was selected by the GOOP book club [19] and Oprah Daily [20] [21] in 2020, and its Taiwanese translation was selected by the Eslite chain of bookstores, Taipei as their November book of the month.
Shikaar is a Hindi play conceptualized and co-written by Swarup in 2019. [22] She wrote the story, and the play was produced by Patchworks Ensemble. Set among a group of chudails, the story explores the threat independent women pose to fascism. [23] [24] [25] Shikaar received both popular and critical acclaim. [26] [27]
Swarup was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship for creative writing [28] at the University of East Anglia, and the South Asia Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity twice for her articles - "The Many Perceptions of Rape", 2009 [29] and "Stealth Revolution", 2012. [30]
For Latitudes of Longing, she received the following awards and nominations -
Discussing her literary influences in an interview with Prakruti Maniar, [41] Swarup shared that she primarily considers Naguib Mahfouz and A.K. Ramanujan, specifically his short story collection A Flowering Tree for narrative style; as well as Haruki Murakami, Gabriel García Márquez and Maria Dermoût’s The Ten Thousand Things, and other Japanese, Spanish and African literature.
Beyond literature, Swarup also credited filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki as a strong influence.
Shubhangi Swarup | |
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![]() Swarup in Mumbai, 2018 | |
Born | 1982 (age 41–42) Nashik, Maharashtra |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | St. Anne's High School, Fort, Mumbai |
Alma mater | St. Xavier's College (Mumbai), SOAS University of London |
Notable work | Latitudes of Longing |
Website | shubhangiswarup.com |
Shubhangi Swarup (hindi - शुभांगी स्वरुप; IPA - ʃʊbʰɑ́ŋgiː svəruːp) is an Indian author, journalist and educator. She is best known for her novel Latitudes of Longing, which was published in 2018 by HarperCollins [1] and was declared a bestseller soon after its release in India, [2] [3] and Sweden. [4]
Swarup has worked as a journalist since 2008, and has written for Open, [5] The Mint [6] and also worked briefly in Zanzibar in 2011. [7]
She was the Executive Editor for ElseVR channel, India's first virtual reality (VR) journalism platform co-created by filmmaker and producer Anand Gandhi. In this capacity, she directed and wrote When Borders Move, a documentary about Hunderman, a village in Kargil that once belonged to Pakistan, was shortly in no man’s land, and now belongs to India. [8] [9]
As part of the Dekeyser and Friend’s Dance Project, Swarup was part of Fire of Anatolia, a Turkish dance group consisting of 120 dancers, several choreographers and other technical staff. [10] [11] Additionally, she has volunteered as a teacher for street children and low income groups, and co-founded the community group, Hamara Footpath, a Mumbai-based NGO dedicated to the educational needs of children who live on Mumbai’s streets. [12]
Swarup was born in Nashik [13] to Sunanda Swarup and Govind Swarup in 1982. She holds a Masters of Sciences degree in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS University of London.
Swarup began work on her first book in 2011. [14] In an interview published in The Hindu, she mentioned that it took her seven years to write the novel, and that her training as a journalist taught her ‘the value of deadlines, and sticking to them in the face of uncertainty.’. [15] [16]
Latitudes of Longing is among the first Indian novels to engage with nature as a living, heaving entity. A tectonically active fault-line running through the Indian subcontinent holds all the stories together, in lieu of a plot. Winner of the Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, the jury observed that the novel has invented a genre in itself: the fiction of nature. [17] Critically and commercially successful, the novel is in the process of being translated in 17 different languages. [18] It was selected by the GOOP book club [19] and Oprah Daily [20] [21] in 2020, and its Taiwanese translation was selected by the Eslite chain of bookstores, Taipei as their November book of the month.
Shikaar is a Hindi play conceptualized and co-written by Swarup in 2019. [22] She wrote the story, and the play was produced by Patchworks Ensemble. Set among a group of chudails, the story explores the threat independent women pose to fascism. [23] [24] [25] Shikaar received both popular and critical acclaim. [26] [27]
Swarup was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship for creative writing [28] at the University of East Anglia, and the South Asia Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity twice for her articles - "The Many Perceptions of Rape", 2009 [29] and "Stealth Revolution", 2012. [30]
For Latitudes of Longing, she received the following awards and nominations -
Discussing her literary influences in an interview with Prakruti Maniar, [41] Swarup shared that she primarily considers Naguib Mahfouz and A.K. Ramanujan, specifically his short story collection A Flowering Tree for narrative style; as well as Haruki Murakami, Gabriel García Márquez and Maria Dermoût’s The Ten Thousand Things, and other Japanese, Spanish and African literature.
Beyond literature, Swarup also credited filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki as a strong influence.