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'''Parul Sehgal''' is an American [[literary critic]]. 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]]''.<ref name=NYorkerContribAutobio>{{cite magazine | author = New Yorker Staff and Sehgal, Parul | date = December 28, 2021 | title = Contributors: Parul Sehgal | magazine = [[The New Yorker|New Yorker]] | url = https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/parul-sehgal | access-date=December 28, 2021}}{{third party inline|date=December 2021}}</ref> She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at [[New York University]].<ref name=NYorkerContribAutobio/>
'''Parul Sehgal''' is an American [[literary critic]]. She is a former senior editor and columnist at ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'', and in 2017 became one of the team of book critics at ''[[The New York Times]]''. As of December 2021, she had become a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref name=NYorkerContribAutobio>{{cite magazine | author = New Yorker Staff and Sehgal, Parul | date = December 28, 2021 | title = Contributors: Parul Sehgal | magazine = [[The New Yorker|New Yorker]] | url = https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/parul-sehgal | access-date=December 28, 2021}}{{third party inline|date=December 2021}}</ref> She also in the graduate creative writing program at [[New York University]].<ref name=NYorkerContribAutobio/>
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==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Sehgal was born circa 1981 in [[Northern Virginia]] near [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref name="durga">{{cite news |last1=Chew-Bose |first1=Durga |title=The Reading Life with Parul Sehgal, Book Critic at The New York Times |url=https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/culture/the-reading-life-with-new-york-times-book-critic-parul-sehgal |access-date=4 January 2022 |work=ssense |date=23 November 2017 |quote= language=en}}</ref>{{when|date=December 2021}} When young, she lived with her parents also in [[Delhi]], [[Manila]], and [[Budapest]] before they returned to the United States and Northern Virginia for part of her childhood.<ref name="durga"/> <ref name=mclemee>{{cite web | author = McLemee, Scott & Sehgal, Parul | date = January 26, 2011 | title = Scott McLemee Interviews Balakian Recipient Parul Sehgal | work = BookCritics.org | publisher=[[National Book Critics Circle]] Board of Directors | url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2011/01/26/scott-mclemee-interviews-balakian-recipient-parul-sehgal/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815233044/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/scott_mclemee_interviews_balakian_recipient_parul_sehgal |archive-date=2018-08-15}}</ref> Her parents and their families had formerly lived in present-day [[Pakistan]] and migrated to India as refugees during the [[Partition of India]]; her father was born on the journey to [[Punjab]].<ref name="durga"/>
Sehgal was born circa 1981 in [[Northern Virginia]] near [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref name="durga">{{cite news |last1=Chew-Bose |first1=Durga |title=The Reading Life with Parul Sehgal, Book Critic at The New York Times |url=https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/culture/the-reading-life-with-new-york-times-book-critic-parul-sehgal |access-date=4 January 2022 |work=ssense |date=23 November 2017 |quote= language=en}}</ref>{{when|date=December 2021}} As a child, she lived with her parents also in [[Delhi]], [[Manila]], and [[Budapest]] before they returned to the United States and Northern Virginia for part of her childhood.<ref name="durga"/> <ref name=mclemee>{{cite web | author = McLemee, Scott & Sehgal, Parul | date = January 26, 2011 | title = Scott McLemee Interviews Balakian Recipient Parul Sehgal | work = BookCritics.org | publisher=[[National Book Critics Circle]] Board of Directors | url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2011/01/26/scott-mclemee-interviews-balakian-recipient-parul-sehgal/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815233044/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/scott_mclemee_interviews_balakian_recipient_parul_sehgal |archive-date=2018-08-15}}</ref> Her parents and their families had formerly lived in present-day [[Pakistan]] and migrated to India as refugees during the [[Partition of India]]; her father was born on the journey to [[Punjab]].<ref name="durga"/>


She studied political science as an undergraduate at [[McGill University]] in Montreal.<ref name=mclemee/> After graduating, she returned to [[Delhi]], where she had extended family, to work at an [[NGO]].<ref name=mclemee/> After returning to the US, she earned an [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] from [[Columbia University]].<ref name=mclemee/>
She studied political science as an undergraduate at [[McGill University]] in Montreal.<ref name=mclemee/> After graduating, she returned to [[Delhi]], where she had extended family, to work at an [[NGO]].<ref name=mclemee/> After returning to the US, she earned an [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] from [[Columbia University]].<ref name=mclemee/>

Revision as of 18:07, 27 July 2023

Parul Sehgal
Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
Born
Northern Virginia
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Book critic, teacher

Parul Sehgal is an American literary critic. She is a former senior editor and columnist at The New York Times Book Review, and in 2017 became one of the team of book critics at The New York Times. As of December 2021, she had become a staff writer at The New Yorker.[1] She also in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.[1]

Early life and education

Sehgal was born circa 1981 in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C..[2][when?] As a child, she lived with her parents also in Delhi, Manila, and Budapest before they returned to the United States and Northern Virginia for part of her childhood.[2] [3] Her parents and their families had formerly lived in present-day Pakistan and migrated to India as refugees during the Partition of India; her father was born on the journey to Punjab.[2]

She studied political science as an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal.[3] After graduating, she returned to Delhi, where she had extended family, to work at an NGO.[3] After returning to the US, she earned an MFA from Columbia University.[3]

Career

Seghal was an editor at Publishers Weekly.[3] In 2012, she became an editor at The New York Times Book Review.[4] Sehgal was a New York Times book critic from 2017 to 2021.[4] In 2021, she became a staff writer at The New Yorker.[5][6]

Awards and recognition

Sehgal received the 2010 National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.[7][3][1] She won the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum’s OneWorld Prize.[8] In 2021 she was recognized for her criticism by the New York Press Club.[1][9]

In 2023, she won the Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. The judges wrote, “She exemplifies the virtues of subtlety, surprise, and above all, pleasure...from the smallest of units—the word, the phrase—to the largest: character, perspective, revelation.”[10]

Personal life

In November 2017, Sehgal described herself as married with a child.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d 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 c Chew-Bose, Durga (23 November 2017). "The Reading Life with Parul Sehgal, Book Critic at The New York Times". ssense. Retrieved 4 January 2022. language=en {{cite news}}: Missing pipe in: |quote= (help)
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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)
  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. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011.
  8. ^ "Parul Sehgal: How Does Envy Help Us Better Understand Ourselves?". NPR.org. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  9. ^ "New York Press Club Honors". The New York Times Company. 2021-07-26. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  10. ^ "2023 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners". The Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  11. ^ Sehgal, Parul (November 14, 2017). "My Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Wins a Convert". The New York Times. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
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