SONALI DEV
USA Today Bestselling Author
Sonali Dev’s first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success, Sonali spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture and writing, migrating across the globe, and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. With the advent of her first gray hair her mad love for telling stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as supermom, domestic goddess, and world traveler.
Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both patience and humor, and the world’s most perfect dog.
Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s Best Books of the year lists. She has won the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer Choice Award for best contemporary romance, multiple RT Seals of Excellence, is a RITA® finalist, and has been listed for the Dublin Literary award. Shelf Awareness calls her “Not only one of the best but one of the bravest romance novelists working today.”
Want to know more? Sonali’s been spilling all in interviews around the web…
- NPR Review: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
- ShelfAwareness Review and Interview
- SHONDALAND’s 10 Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down
- Retelling The Classics: A Q&A
- Booktrib Review: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
- Bustle: On Writing Arranged Marriages
- Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors Austen Prose Review
- Indian Romance in America in The Times Of India
- Talking Diversity in Publishing with The New York Times
- Talking Feminism in Romance with The Chicago Tribune
- A DISTANT HEART- NPR Review
- The Kirkus Interview
- The Boolist Interiew
- Bollywood Film Recs on SBTB
- A DISTANT HEART Cover Reveal on Bustle
- The Rumpus Interview
- Book Brahmin Interview on Shelf Awareness
- The Chicago Reader Cover Story
- My list of favorite romance novels on Chicago Reader
- On NPR reviewing RITA books with representation
- Dreaming in Color- About my writing journey on RT Reviews
- Why I write the heroines I write on Book Riot
- Bollywood, Tropes, and Saris: An All About Romance Author Interview
- Why it’s Time the Romance Genre Reflected our Diverse World