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Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1975 and raised in Cardiff, Wales.. She studied English at Bristol University and her first book, Gifted, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. She was also nominated as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. In June 2008 she won the inaugural Desmond Elliot Prize for Fiction. She donated the £10,000 prize to human rights campaigners, Liberty. Lalwani has also contributed to The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Observer and also recently written for AIDS Sutra, an anthology exploring the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in India. She lives in North West London.

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