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In the US,{{when|date=December 2021}} Seghal secured an editing position at ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref name=mclemee/> She took later positions as a senior editor and columnist at the Sunday ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]''.{{when|date=December 2021}}<ref name=PompeoVanityFair>{{cite web | author = Pompeo, Joe | date = July 27, 2017 | title = Michiko Kakutani, the Legendary Book Critic and the Most Feared Woman in Publishing, Is Stepping Down from The New York Times | work = [[Vanity Fair (magazines)|Vanity Fair]] | publisher= | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/michiko-kakutani-leaving-the-new-york-times |access-date=December 28, 2021}}</ref> Coincident with the departure of longstanding critic [[Michiko Kakutani]] in 2017, Sehgal was added to ''[[The New York Times]]'' group of book critics.<ref name=PompeoVanityFair/><!--Still there? If not, when did she leave?--> As of July 2021, ''[[Politico]]'' was reporting that Seghal had been named as a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]', to begin the role in September 2021, <ref name=BadeEtalPolitico/> and would be ending her tenure at the ''New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Parul Sehgal to Leave the 'Times' for the 'New Yorker' |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3329 |access-date=4 January 2022 |work=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}</ref>
In the US,{{when|date=December 2021}} Seghal secured an editing position at ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref name=mclemee/> She took later positions as a senior editor and columnist at the Sunday ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]''.{{when|date=December 2021}}<ref name=PompeoVanityFair>{{cite web | author = Pompeo, Joe | date = July 27, 2017 | title = Michiko Kakutani, the Legendary Book Critic and the Most Feared Woman in Publishing, Is Stepping Down from The New York Times | work = [[Vanity Fair (magazines)|Vanity Fair]] | publisher= | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/michiko-kakutani-leaving-the-new-york-times |access-date=December 28, 2021}}</ref> Coincident with the departure of longstanding critic [[Michiko Kakutani]] in 2017, Sehgal was added to ''[[The New York Times]]'' group of book critics.<ref name=PompeoVanityFair/><!--Still there? If not, when did she leave?--> As of July 2021, ''[[Politico]]'' was reporting that Seghal had been named as a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]'', to begin the role in September 2021, <ref name=BadeEtalPolitico/> and would be ending her tenure at the ''New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Parul Sehgal to Leave the 'Times' for the 'New Yorker' |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3329 |access-date=4 January 2022 |work=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}</ref>
As of December 2021, Seghal was also teaching at [[New York University]], in the graduate creative writing program,<ref name=NYorkerContribAutobio/>{{better source|date=December 2021}} and as of this date,{{when|date=December 2021}} she was teaching at [[Columbia University]] and at the [[City University of New York]].{{what|date=December 2021}}{{cn|date=December 2021}}
As of December 2021, Seghal was also teaching at [[New York University]], in the graduate creative writing program,<ref name=NYorkerContribAutobio/>{{better source|date=December 2021}} and as of this date,{{when|date=December 2021}} she was teaching at [[Columbia University]] and at the [[City University of New York]].{{what|date=December 2021}}{{cn|date=December 2021}}
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Parul Sehgal
Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
Occupation(s)Book critic, teacher

Parul Sehgal is an Indian-born, Balakian award-winning literary critic based in New York, who publishes primarily in American venues. She is a former senior editor and columnist at The New York Times Book Review, and was one of the team of book critics at The New York Times. As of December 2021, she was a staff writer at The New Yorker,[1] a position she was first reported to have taken in July 2021.[2] As of this date,[when?] Sehgal was also teaching[clarification needed] at Columbia University,[not verified in body] and as of December 2021, in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.[1][better source needed]

Early life and education

Sehgal was born outside Washington, D.C.,[3][when?] and was raised in India, Hungary, the Philippines and Northern Virginia.[4] She studied political science at McGill University in Montreal.[4] After graduating, she traveled to Delhi to work at an NGO.[4] After returning to the US, she earned an MFA from Columbia University.[4]

Career

In the US,[when?] Seghal secured an editing position at Publishers Weekly.[4] She took later positions as a senior editor and columnist at the Sunday The New York Times Book Review.[when?][5] Coincident with the departure of longstanding critic Michiko Kakutani in 2017, Sehgal was added to The New York Times group of book critics.[5] As of July 2021, Politico was reporting that Seghal had been named as a staff writer at The New Yorker, to begin the role in September 2021, [2] and would be ending her tenure at the New York Times.[6] As of December 2021, Seghal was also teaching at New York University, in the graduate creative writing program,[1][better source needed] and as of this date,[when?] she was teaching at Columbia University and at the City University of New York.[clarification needed][citation needed]

Awards and recognition

Sehgal received the 2010 National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.[7][dead link][4][1] She won the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum’s OneWorld Prize,[citation needed] and was recognized for her criticism by the New York Press Club.[1][clarification needed][better source needed]

Personal life

As of November 2017, Sehgal was reporting herself married, with a child.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e New Yorker Staff and Sehgal, Parul (December 28, 2021). "Contributors: Parul Sehgal". New Yorker. Retrieved December 28, 2021.[third-party source needed]
  2. ^ a b Bade, Rachael; Daniels, Eugene; Palmeri, Tara & Lizza, Ryan (July 13, 2021). "Playbook: 'Just say we won', WaPo duo goes inside the Trump White House on Election Day [Media Moves subsection]". Politico.com. Retrieved December 28, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Chew-Bose, Durga (23 November 2017). "The Reading Life with Parul Sehgal, Book Critic at The New York Times". ssense. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e f McLemee, Scott & Sehgal, Parul (January 26, 2011). "Scott McLemee Interviews Balakian Recipient Parul Sehgal". BookCritics.org. National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors. Archived from the original on 2018-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ a b Pompeo, Joe (July 27, 2017). "Michiko Kakutani, the Legendary Book Critic and the Most Feared Woman in Publishing, Is Stepping Down from The New York Times". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  6. ^ "Parul Sehgal to Leave the 'Times' for the 'New Yorker'". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  7. ^ Hoffert, Barbara (January 22, 2011). "The National Book Critics Circle Finalists for 2010 Awards". BookCritics.org.[dead link]
  8. ^ Sehgal, Parul (November 14, 2017). "My Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Wins a Convert". The New York Times. Retrieved December 28, 2021.