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Seghal settled in New York City to pursue her interest in literature and criticism. She moved up to becoming books editor for NPR and a senior editor at ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''. <ref name=mclemee/> In 2012, she became an editor at ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]''.<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> |
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In July 2017 Sehgal joined the team of book critics established at the ''[[New York Times]]'' after the retirement of Michiko Kakutani, and served into 2021.<ref name=PompeoVanityFair/> In 2021, she left to become a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<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><ref name=BadeEtalPolitico>{{cite web | author = Bade, Rachael; Daniels, Eugene; Palmeri, Tara & Lizza, Ryan | date = July 13, 2021 | title = Playbook: 'Just say we won', WaPo duo goes inside the Trump White House on Election Day [Media Moves subsection] | work = [[Politico.com]] | url = https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/07/13/just-say-we-won-wapo-duo-goes-inside-the-trump-white-house-on-election-day-493549 | access-date = December 28, 2021}}</ref><!--Did not see reference to her --> |
In July 2017 Sehgal joined the team of book critics established at the ''[[New York Times]]'' after the retirement of Michiko Kakutani, and served into 2021.<ref name=PompeoVanityFair/> In 2021, she left to become a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<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 |date= |access-date=4 January 2022 |work=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=BadeEtalPolitico>{{cite web | author = Bade, Rachael; Daniels, Eugene; Palmeri, Tara & Lizza, Ryan | date = July 13, 2021 | title = Playbook: 'Just say we won', WaPo duo goes inside the Trump White House on Election Day [Media Moves subsection] | work = [[Politico.com]] | url = https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/07/13/just-say-we-won-wapo-duo-goes-inside-the-trump-white-house-on-election-day-493549 | access-date = December 28, 2021}}</ref><!--Did not see reference to her --> |
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==Awards and recognition== |
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 Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony | |
| Born | Northern Virginia |
| Nationality | American |
| 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 settled in New York City to pursue her interest in literature and criticism. She moved up to becoming books editor for NPR and a senior editor at Publishers Weekly. [3] In 2012, she became an editor at The New York Times Book Review.[4]
In July 2017 Sehgal joined the team of book critics established at the New York Times after the retirement of Michiko Kakutani, and served into 2021.[4] In 2021, she left to become 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
- ^ 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]
- ^ 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.
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{{cite news}}: Missing pipe in:|quote=(help) - ^ 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) - ^ 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.
- ^ "Parul Sehgal to Leave the 'Times' for the 'New Yorker'". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ 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) - ^ Hoffert, Barbara (January 22, 2011). "The National Book Critics Circle Finalists for 2010 Awards". BookCritics.org. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011.
- ^ "Parul Sehgal: How Does Envy Help Us Better Understand Ourselves?". NPR.org. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ "New York Press Club Honors". The New York Times Company. 2021-07-26. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ "2023 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners". The Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ Sehgal, Parul (November 14, 2017). "My Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Wins a Convert". The New York Times. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
External links
- Official website
- Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy, TED talk.