Shubhangi Swarup Explained

Shubhangi Swarup
Birth Place:Nashik, Maharashtra
Nationality:Indian
Notable Works:Latitudes of Longing
Website:shubhangiswarup.com
Education:St. Anne's High School, Fort, Mumbai
Alma Mater:St. Xavier's College (Mumbai), SOAS University of London

Shubhangi Swarup (hindi - शुभांगी स्वरुप; IPA - ʃʊbʰɑ́ŋgiː svəruːp) is an Indian author, journalist and educator. She is best known for her novel Latitudes of Longing, which was published in 2018 by HarperCollins[1] and was declared a bestseller soon after its release in India,[2] [3] and Sweden.[4]

Swarup has worked as a journalist since 2008, and has written for Open,[5] The Mint[6] and also worked briefly in Zanzibar in 2011.[7]

She was the Executive Editor for ElseVR channel, India's first virtual reality (VR) journalism platform co-created by filmmaker and producer Anand Gandhi. In this capacity, she directed and wrote When Borders Move, a documentary about Hunderman, a village in Kargil that once belonged to Pakistan, was shortly in no man’s land, and now belongs to India.[8] [9]

As part of the Dekeyser and Friend’s Dance Project, Swarup was part of Fire of Anatolia, a Turkish dance group consisting of 120 dancers, several choreographers and other technical staff.[10] [11] Additionally, she has volunteered as a teacher for street children and low income groups, and co-founded the community group, Hamara Footpath, a Mumbai-based NGO dedicated to the educational needs of children who live on Mumbai’s streets.[12]

Swarup was born in Nashik[13] to Sunanda Swarup and Govind Swarup in 1982. She holds a Masters of Sciences degree in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS University of London.

Notable works

Latitudes of Longing (2018)

Swarup began work on her first book in 2011.[14] In an interview published in The Hindu, she mentioned that it took her seven years to write the novel, and that her training as a journalist taught her ‘the value of deadlines, and sticking to them in the face of uncertainty.’.[15] [16]

Latitudes of Longing is among the first Indian novels to engage with nature as a living, heaving entity. A tectonically active fault-line running through the Indian subcontinent holds all the stories together, in lieu of a plot. Winner of the Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, the jury observed that the novel has invented a genre in itself: the fiction of nature.[17] Critically and commercially successful, the novel is in the process of being translated in 17 different languages.[18] It was selected by the GOOP book club[19] and Oprah Daily[20] [21] in 2020, and its Taiwanese translation was selected by the Eslite chain of bookstores, Taipei as their November book of the month.

Shikaar (2019)

Shikaar is a Hindi play conceptualized and co-written by Swarup in 2019.[22] She wrote the story, and the play was produced by Patchworks Ensemble. Set among a group of chudails, the story explores the threat independent women pose to fascism.[23] [24] [25] Shikaar received both popular and critical acclaim.[26] [27]

Awards

Swarup was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship for creative writing[28] at the University of East Anglia, and the South Asia Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity twice for her articles - "The Many Perceptions of Rape", 2009[29] and "Stealth Revolution", 2012.[30]

For Latitudes of Longing, she received the following awards and nominations -

Influences

Discussing her literary influences in an interview with Prakruti Maniar,[40] Swarup cited Naguib Mahfouz and A.K. Ramanujan, specifically his short story collection A Flowering Tree for narrative style, as well as Haruki Murakami, Gabriel García Márquez and Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, and other Japanese, Spanish and African literature.

Beyond literature, Swarup also credited filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki as a strong influence.

References

  1. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup . 2023-10-12 . HarperCollins Publishers India Books, Novels, Authors and Reviews.
  2. Web site: 2020-05-21 . Latitudes of Longing . 2023-11-23 . Literary Hub . en-US.
  3. Web site: Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup . goop Book Club.
  4. Web site: Webico . 2020-05-20 . "Latitudes of Longing" by Shubhangi Swarup makes international waves from the start . 2023-11-23 . Pontas Agency . en-US.
  5. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup, Author at Open The Magazine . 2023-10-23 . Open The Magazine . en-GB.
  6. Web site: 2018-12-28 . Lounge Original: 'Confessions of a Menopausal Man' by Shubhangi Swarup . 2023-10-23 . Mintlounge . en.
  7. Web site: 2011-11-25 . Paradise Island, Up Close and Real . 2023-11-23 . Open The Magazine . en-GB.
  8. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup Additional Crew, Director, Editor . 2024-02-03 . IMDb . en-US.
  9. News: Virtual reality adds transparency to narrative journalism . Business Standard . IANS . 7 February 2017.
  10. Web site: DANCE PROJECT – Dekeyser & Friends . 2023-11-23 . en-US.
  11. Web site: 2010-02-16 . My Life as an Extra . 2023-11-23 . Open The Magazine . en-GB.
  12. News: 2007-05-13 . Life's lessons learnt on the sidewalk . The Times of India . 2023-11-23 . 0971-8257.
  13. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup . 2023-10-23 . www.thejcbprize.org.
  14. News: 2020-08-05 . Indian women are wowing the West with their first novels . The Times of India . 2023-10-23 . 0971-8257.
  15. News: Mukherjee . Anusua . 2020-02-08 . In conversation with Shubhangi Swarup . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-11-23 . 0971-751X.
  16. News: 2 September 2018 . Human imagination has been trapped in rooms of our own creation . Business Standard . IANS .
  17. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup, prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2023 . 2023-12-28 . ActuaLitté.com . fr-FR.
  18. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup - Aevitas Creative Management . 2024-02-15 . www.aevitascreative.com.
  19. Web site: Goop Book Club - Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup .
  20. Web site: 2020-06-24 . 28 Books to Transport You This Summer, Written By Women Around the World . 2023-12-28 . Oprah Daily . en-US.
  21. Web site: 2020-07-08 . Oprah picks Mumbai debut writer Shubhangi Swarup for her summer list . 2023-12-28 . Mintlounge . en.
  22. Web site: SHIKAAR Hindi Play/Drama - www.MumbaiTheatreGuide.com . 2023-11-01 . www.mumbaitheatreguide.com.
  23. Web site: The play Shikaar preys on our notions of hunter and hunted . 2023-11-23 . The Week . en.
  24. News: Phukan . Vikram . 2019-08-14 . Shikaar: A commune of chudails . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-11-23 . 0971-751X.
  25. Web site: No easy answers! . 2023-11-23 . DNA India . en.
  26. News: Phukan . Vikram . 2019-08-14 . Shikaar: A commune of chudails . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-11-01 . 0971-751X.
  27. Web site: 2019-08-21 . Shikaar successfully walks the fine line between real laughs and real fears . 2023-11-01 . The Indian Express . en.
  28. Web site: Charles Pick Fellowship - School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - About . 2023-12-24 . www.uea.ac.uk.
  29. Web site: 5_Down_NATIONAL_BROCHURE_2010-2011_CURVE.pdf - Microsoft Word Online . 2023-12-24 . onedrive.live.com.
  30. Web site: 5_Down_NATIONAL_BROCHURE_2010-2011_CURVE.pdf - Microsoft Word Online . 2023-12-24 . onedrive.live.com.
  31. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup remporte le prix Emile Guimet de littérature asiatique . 2023-12-24 . Livres Hebdo . fr.
  32. Web site: lalettre . 2023-01-21 . Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2023 à Shubhangi Swarup . 2023-12-24 . lalettredulibraire.com . fr.
  33. Web site: Scroll Staff . 2023-01-23 . Shubhangi Swarup's 'Latitudes of Longings' wins 2023 Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature . 2023-12-24 . Scroll.in . en-US.
  34. Web site: Shubhangi Swarup, prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2023 . 2023-12-24 . ActuaLitté.com . fr-FR.
  35. Web site: 2020-01-03 . Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing wins Sushila Devi Literature Award . 2023-12-24 . The Indian Express . en.
  36. Web site: IGO . 2019-11-09 . Latitudes of Longing . 2023-12-24 . Dublin Literary Award . en-US.
  37. Web site: Anderson . Porter . 2019-09-27 . DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Releases Its Longlist . 2023-12-24 . Publishing Perspectives . en-US.
  38. Web site: Scroll Staff . Shubhangi Swarup and James Crabtree among the winners of the Tata Literature Live Awards . 2023-12-24 . Scroll.in . en-US.
  39. Web site: Jasmine Days . 2023-12-24 . www.thejcbprize.org.
  40. Web site: 2018-10-18 . Fiction begins where non-fiction ends: Shubhangi Swarup - Purple Pencil Project . 2023-11-23 . en-US.

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