Sonia Faleiro

Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning journalist and writer.

She was born in Goa, and has lived in New Delhi and Edinburgh. She now lives in Bombay.

The Girl (Viking, 2006) is her first novel. Her short stories and non fiction appear in First Proof : The Penguin Book of New Writing From India II (2006), Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa ( Penguin, 2006), The Fiction Collection: Twenty Years of Penguin India (2007), India (ISBN Edizioni, 2008) and AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Random House, Vintage UK, Anchor Books US, August 2008).

Sonia is a Contributing Editor to Vogue. She is working on her second book, a non fiction account of the lives of Bombay's bar dancers.

NEWS

AIDS Sutra book tour, December 2-12, 2008:

December 2: School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta
December 4: Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston
December 9: Global Health Resources Centre, University of Washington, Seattle
December 11: School of Global Health, University of California, San Francisco
December 12: Centre for Global Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Scheduled Events: Asia Pacific International Leadership Summit: 'Towards a New Paradigm of Leadership and Good Governance in the Asia Pacific.' Tokyo, Japan, November 12-16, 2008

AIDS Sutra featured on NPR's Tell me More with Michel Martin. Listen to the interview and read Sonia's essay from the anthology, here

Scheduled Events: 'AIDS Sutra: The Write Way' with Sunil Sethi on NDTV 24/7 (August 23, 10 p.m., August 24, 10.30 p.m.), NDTV Profit (August 23, 11a.m., August 24, 6.30 p.m.)

'AIDS 2008-XVII International AIDS Conference ', August 3-8, Mexico City. Readings from AIDS Sutra on August 3-7

India launches: Mumbai , Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi (August 12 and 13)

Coming Soon: AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Random House, August 2008). More here

Out Now! India . An anthology of new writing from India, translated into Italian by Gioia Guerzoni for ISBN Edizioni, Italy

Scheduled Events: The Jaipur Literature Festival, January 23-27, 2008

Forthcoming: The Girl in paperback (January, 2008)

Out Now! The Fiction Collection, 20 Years of Penguin India, featuring an extract from The Girl

Scheduled Events: The Washington Times Foundation, Universal Peace Federation International Leadership Conference, Washington D.C., May 15-19, 2007

Kitab Festival , Mumbai, February 23-25, 2007

Centre for Feminist Legal Research, Consultation, "Gender, Migration, Law and Human Rights," New Delhi , January 18-20, 2007

Awardee, CNN Young Journalist of the Year, 2006

Out Now! "Outkast D'Souza," Sonia's short story in the anthology Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa (Penguin, Rs 395, November 2006)
Read The Hindustan Times review . Tehelka. Hindu . The Sunday Tribune .

Read an Interview with Sonia in Elle magazine, September 2006

New Reportage: "Death of a Son, Grandson, And All of Life's Dreams ." Cover Story, Tehelka, September 9, 2006

"Goa Unseen," Cover Story, Travel + Leisure South Asia, September, 2006

Mumbai Mirror Interview

Read a profile of Sonia in The Hindustan Times

Out Now! First Proof : The Penguin Book of New Writing From India II

Sonia’s Delegate Note on the Asia-Pacific Island Nations Summit II, Taipei, Taiwan, June 7-9, 2006

Read an interview with Sonia in Verve magazine, March-April, 2006