Anuradha Roy (novelist)

The Earthspinner, her fifth novel, was published by Hachette India and the Mountain Leopard Press, London, in September 2021. It won the Sushila Devi Book Award 2022 for the best novel by a woman writer in India. It was shortlisted for the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2022, as well as the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.

Her fourth novel, All the Lives We Never Lived, won the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018. It was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020. In December 2022 it won India's most prestigious literary prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by India's literary academy to a work written in any genre in English.

Anuradha Roy is an Indian novelist, journalist and editor. She has written five novels: An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008), The Folded Earth (2011), Sleeping on Jupiter (2015), All the Lives We Never Lived (2018), and The Earthspinner (2021).

Advani and Roy founded Permanent Black, a publishing company focusing on academic literature, in 2000, and Roy is a designer for the company. Roy had previously worked with Stree, an Indian independent publisher in Kolkata. She was a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press, India, a job she quit in 2000.