SONIA FALEIRO
ABOUT
Sonia Faleiro is the author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars and a novella, The Girl. Her writing has received support from the Pulitzer Centre and The Investigative Fund, and appears in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Harper's, Granta, 1843, The California Sunday Magazine, and MIT Technology Review.
Her new book, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing will be published by Grove Atlantic in the US, Bloomsbury in the UK, Penguin India and Random House Canada in January/February 2021.
Sonia is the founder of the literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks, and the co-founder of Deca, a global cooperative of award-winning journalists.
She lives in London and is represented by The Wylie Agency.
SELECTED NEW WRITING
How India became the World Leader in Internet Shutdowns
MIT Technology Review
India's Unending Occupation of Kashmir
Harper's
Britain's Ethnic Minorities are being left for Dead
The New York Times
Boris Johnson’s Coronavirus Lies Are Killing Britons
The Intercept
What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19
MIT Technology Review
Dismantling the World's Largest Democracy
Foreign Policy
In the ring with India’s most powerful woman
1843
To Live and Die in Mumbai
The California Sunday Magazine
The Long Rescue
Harper's
THE GOOD GIRLS: AN ORDINARY KILLING
Non-fiction, 2021
"A masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation."
Featured in Publisher Weekly's list of true crime to watch for in 2021
Publisher's Weekly review: "A powerful account ... True crime buffs will be fascinated."
Grove Atlantic/Bloomsbury/Penguin Random House India/Penguin Random House Canada/Czarne
At Bloomsbury, Hetty Touquet leads publicity for The Good Girls
For publicity queries in the US please email Justina Batchelor
BEAUTIFUL THING: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF BOMBAY'S DANCE BARS
Non-fiction, 2010
“[An] intimate and valuable book of literary reportage that will break your heart several times over." The New York Times
Book of the Year: The Sunday Times, The Economist, CNN, The San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus, The Observer, The Guardian, and NPR
Grove Atlantic/Canongate/Penguin India/Black Inc/Actes Sud/Lind & Co/Nieu Amsterdam
13 MEN
Non-fiction, Kindle Single, 2015
"A memorable portrait of a community in turmoil": The Guardian
Interview with NPR's All Things Considered
Interview with Columbia Journalism Review
Deca (English)/Actes Sud (French)
THE GIRL
Fiction, Penguin India, 2006
’In the tradition of Elizabeth Smart’s cult classic By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, The Girl makes romantic suffering something of epic proportions."
India Today
'A classic. Beautiful lyricism, poetic passages and evocative descriptions of Goa.'
Deccan Herald
'A lyrical first novel rich with dark visual imagery.'
India Today
'The girl has wisdom, tenderness, and a sort of agelessness that sets it apart from contemporary fiction in India.'
Far Eastern Economic Review