Parul Sehgal
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Parul Sehgal is an American literary critic 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] She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.[1]
Early life and education
Sehgal was born outside Washington, D.C.,[2][when?] and was raised in India, Hungary, the Philippines and Northern Virginia.[3] She studied political science at McGill University in Montreal.[3] After graduating, she traveled to Delhi 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
- ^ 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]
- ^ Chew-Bose, Durga (23 November 2017). "The Reading Life with Parul Sehgal, Book Critic at The New York Times". ssense. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ 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.