Shubhangi Swarup
Shubhangi Swarup | |
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Born | 1982 (age 41–42) Nashik, Maharashtra |
Nationality (legal) | 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.
Notable works[edit]
Latitudes of Longing (2018)[edit]
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 (2019)[edit]
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]
Awards[edit]
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 -
- the 6th Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, 2022[31][32][33][34]
- won the Sushila Devi Literature Award for Best Book of Fiction Written By A Woman, 2020[35]
- longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award, 2020[36]
- longlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, 2019[37]
- won the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award - Debut Fiction, 2018[38]
- shortlisted for the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, 2018[39][40]
Influences[edit]
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.
References[edit]
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup". HarperCollins Publishers India Books, Novels, Authors and Reviews. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ "Latitudes of Longing". Literary Hub. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup". goop Book Club.
- ^ Webico (2020-05-20). ""Latitudes of Longing" by Shubhangi Swarup makes international waves from the start". Pontas Agency. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup, Author at Open The Magazine". Open The Magazine. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
- ^ "Lounge Original: 'Confessions of a Menopausal Man' by Shubhangi Swarup". Mintlounge. 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
- ^ "Paradise Island, Up Close and Real". Open The Magazine. 2011-11-25. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup | Additional Crew, Director, Editor". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ^ "Virtual reality adds transparency to narrative journalism". Business Standard. IANS. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ^ "DANCE PROJECT – Dekeyser & Friends". Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "My Life as an Extra". Open The Magazine. 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "Life's lessons learnt on the sidewalk". The Times of India. 2007-05-13. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup". www.thejcbprize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
- ^ "Indian women are wowing the West with their first novels". The Times of India. 2020-08-05. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
- ^ Mukherjee, Anusua (2020-02-08). "In conversation with Shubhangi Swarup". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "Human imagination has been trapped in rooms of our own creation". Business Standard. IANS. 2 September 2018.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup, prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2023". ActuaLitté.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup - Aevitas Creative Management". www.aevitascreative.com. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
- ^ "Goop Book Club - Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup".
- ^ "28 Books to Transport You This Summer, Written By Women Around the World". Oprah Daily. 2020-06-24. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- ^ "Oprah picks Mumbai debut writer Shubhangi Swarup for her summer list". Mintlounge. 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- ^ "SHIKAAR Hindi Play/Drama - www.MumbaiTheatreGuide.com". www.mumbaitheatreguide.com. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ^ "The play Shikaar preys on our notions of hunter and hunted". The Week. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ Phukan, Vikram (2019-08-14). "Shikaar: A commune of chudails". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ "No easy answers!". DNA India. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ Phukan, Vikram (2019-08-14). "Shikaar: A commune of chudails". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ^ "Shikaar successfully walks the fine line between real laughs and real fears". The Indian Express. 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ^ "Charles Pick Fellowship - School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - About". www.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "5_Down_NATIONAL_BROCHURE_2010-2011_CURVE.pdf - Microsoft Word Online". onedrive.live.com. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "5_Down_NATIONAL_BROCHURE_2010-2011_CURVE.pdf - Microsoft Word Online". onedrive.live.com. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup remporte le prix Emile Guimet de littérature asiatique". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ lalettre (2023-01-21). "Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2023 à Shubhangi Swarup". lalettredulibraire.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Scroll Staff (2023-01-23). "Shubhangi Swarup's 'Latitudes of Longings' wins 2023 Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup, prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2023". ActuaLitté.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing wins Sushila Devi Literature Award". The Indian Express. 2020-01-03. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ IGO (2019-11-09). "Latitudes of Longing". Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Anderson, Porter (2019-09-27). "DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Releases Its Longlist". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Scroll Staff. "Shubhangi Swarup and James Crabtree among the winners of the Tata Literature Live Awards". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "JCB Prize", Wikipedia, 2023-04-19, retrieved 2023-12-24
- ^ "Jasmine Days". www.thejcbprize.org. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "Fiction begins where non-fiction ends: Shubhangi Swarup - Purple Pencil Project". 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2023-11-23.