Parul Sehgal

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Parul Sehgal
Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
OccupationBook 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,[when?][where?] 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[]

In the US,[when?] Seghal secured an editing position at Publishers Weekly.[3][dead link] She took later positions as a senior editor and columnist at the Sunday The New York Times Book Review.[when?][4] Coincident with the departure of longstanding critic Michiko Kakutani in 2017, Sehgal was added to The New York Times group of book critics.[4] As of July 2021, Politico was reporting that Seghal had been named as a staff writer at The New Yorker,[2] work she began in September 2021.[citation needed]

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]

In addition to the foregoing employments, Seghal has also other authored literary critiques for several publications:[citation needed]

Awards and recognition[]

Sehgal received the 2010 National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.[5][dead link][3][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.[6]

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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[better source needed]
  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. ^ Hoffert, Barbara (January 22, 2011). "The National Book Critics Circle Finalists for 2010 Awards". BookCritics.org.[dead link]
  6. ^ Sehgal, Parul (November 14, 2017). "My Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Wins a Convert". The New York Times. Retrieved December 28, 2021.

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