Nikita Lalwani FRSL is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff, Wales.
[4] Lalwani was nominated as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.
[6] She donated the £10,000 prize to Liberty, a human rights advocacy nonprofit.
[7] Lalwani's second book, The Village, was published in 2012[8] and was selected as one of eight titles for the Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2013.
[13][14] Her novel You People,[15] set in a West London pizzeria where most of the staff are illegal immigrants, was published in 2020 by Penguin[16] and in 2021 by McSweeney's USA.