Sonia Faleiro, is an award-winning Indian reporter and writer. She grew up in New Delhi where she studied history at St. Stephen's College, and received her master's degree from the University of Edinburgh. While in graduate school, Faleiro started writing her first novel, The Girl, which was published by Penguin Viking in 2005. India Today magazine described the book as 'epic', dazzling' and 'strangely dark''. Faleiro has reported for India Today magazine and in 2007 joined Vogue (India) as a Contributing Editor. Faleiro has contributed to several anthologies, among them AIDS Sutra: Hidden Stories from India. The Guardian described her essay in AIDS Sutra as 'urgent' and 'stark'. Faleiro's second book, Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars' is a work of narrative non fiction, based on five years of research in Bombay's dance bars. Beautiful Thing has been described as 'brilliant and unforgettable, a book by a writer who is one of the best of her generation'. It was Time Out magazine's 'Subcontinental Book of the Year, 2010' and 'CNN's Mumbai Book of the Year' . Beautiful Thing is being translated into several languages and will be published in Australia (May, 2011), the UK (August, 2011), and in the US (March, 2012).

Faleiro lives in San Francisco.

Journalism

Sonia Faleiro has reported for India Today

India Today

India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...

 and Tehelka

Tehelka

Tehelka is an Indian weekly political magazine under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal known for its undercover exposé style of journalism. Its cover price is Rs 20 per issue. The publication began in 2000 as a news website, Tehelka.com...

 magazines, and is currently a contributing editor to Vogue (India). Her reportage includes numerous reports on India's sex-workers, on Bombay's bar dancers, a six-part series on India's domestic workers, and extensive writings on the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha

Vidarbha

Vidarbha is the eastern region of Maharashtra state made up of Nagpur Division and Amravati Division. Its former name is Berar . It occupies 31.6% of total area and holds 21.3% of total population of Maharashtra...

.

Awards

She is the recipient of a CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

Young Journalist Award (2006), as well as of awards from the Ratan Tata Trust, the Oxford Cambridge Society of India, and the British Council's de Souza Trust.

See also

• Her official website
• Her blog, which won Best Topical Indiblog in 2006.