Nikita Lalwani

Nikita Lalwani’s first novel Gifted was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and was the winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize for New Fiction. Her second novel was The Village (2012) and her third is You People (2020). Nikita was a judge for the RSL Encore prize and the Rathbones Folio prize 19/20.  She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Photograph: Vik Sharma.

‘Nikita is warm, challenging, accurate and constructive, a terrific tutor’: Derek Routledge, Online Three-Month Novel-Writing Course, Spring 2015