Alice Albinia
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Alice Albinia is a journalist and author whose first book, Empires of the Indus
, won several awards.
Alice read English Literature at Cambridge and South Asian History at SOAS. In between, she worked for two years in Delhi
as a journalist and editor.
She was one of the three Judges for the 2008 Jerwood Awards.
Her newest novel, Leela's Book, is set to publish in January 2012 from W. W. Norton & Company.
Empires of the Indus
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River is a non-fiction book by Alice Albinia that covers the writer's journey from Karachi to Tibet, which is the natural course of the Indus River. The book gives an insight into the communities as well as the political framework of the countries through which...
, won several awards.
Alice read English Literature at Cambridge and South Asian History at SOAS. In between, she worked for two years in Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
as a journalist and editor.
She was one of the three Judges for the 2008 Jerwood Awards.
Her newest novel, Leela's Book, is set to publish in January 2012 from W. W. Norton & Company.
Awards
- 2005 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction for Empires of the Indus
- 2009 Dolman Travel PrizeDolman Best Travel Book AwardThe Dolman Best Travel Book Award is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers...
- 2009 Somerset Maugham AwardSomerset Maugham AwardThe Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to whom they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus...