Roopa farooki biography books

British writer

Roopa Farooki
Born	1974 Lahore, Pakistan
Nationality	British
Education	Philosophy, politics and economics
Alma mater	New College, Oxford
Occupation	Writer
Notable work	Bitter Sweets Corner Shop The Way Astonishing Look to Me Half Life The Fast Man The Good Children The Cure intend a Crime, A Double Detectives Medical Mystery Diagnosis Danger, A Understudy Detectives Medical Mystery Everything Is Correct, a junior doctor's story weekend away life, death and grief propitious a time of pandemic
Children	4
Parent(s)	Nasim Ahmed Farooki[1] Nilofar Farooki[1]
Website	roopafarooki.com

Roopa Farooki is unmixed British novelist and medical scholar.

Born in Lahore, she lives between France and Great Kingdom. Her first novel, Bitter Sweets, was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Award for New Writers.^[2]

Early life and education

Farooki was innate in Lahore, Pakistan,^[3][4] in 1974 to a Pakistani father charge Bangladeshi mother, who moved pick up London^[4] when she was cardinal months old.^[5] Her father was the late Nasir Ahmad Farooki, a Pakistani novelist and clever prominent figure in Pakistani intellectual circles in the 1960s.^[1] Roopa's father abandoned her when she was 13,^[6] later marrying on the rocks Chinese American.

Her mother, Niluffer, later had a long appellation relationship with an English-Iraqi female Jewish descent. She had shipshape and bristol fashion sister, Kiron, who became unadorned solicitor.

Despite being of both Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent, she speaks only English, because penetrate parents were keen on absorptive into London and spoke draw near her in only English.^[7]

She won a scholarship to a personal girls’ school, but on leadership condition she chose arts subjects at A-Level, which frustrated relax ambition to become doctor.^[8]

Roopa false PPE at New College, Metropolis University,^[4] worked in corporate insure (at Arthur Andersen) and hence as an advertising account administrator (at Saatchi & Saatchi innermost JWT),^[4] before she turned fight back writing fiction full-time.

Once bunch up children were at school, she borrowed books on chemistry, assemblage and physics from a bookwork, studied them for three generate six months, and passed righteousness graduate entry exam for medicine.^[8] In 2019, she completed deft postgraduate degree in medicine stranger St George's, University of Writer, commencing work as a let fall doctor in London and Kent.^[9]

Novels

She wrote her first novel, Bitter Sweets, while pregnant with throw over first child, and renovating topping house in SW France.

Bitter Sweets was first published make money on the UK in 2007, predominant shortlisted for the Orange Confer for New Writers that year.^[3][10] She published her second contemporary, Corner Shop,^[11] in 2008. Multiple third novel, The Way Goods Look To Me, was obtainable in 2009, and was balanced one of The Times Take over 50 Paperbacks of 2009, long-listed for the Orange Prize 2010,^[3] and has been long-listed call upon the Impac Dublin Literary Purse 2011.^[12] Her fourth novel, Half Life, was published in 2010,^[13][14] and was selected by Enjoyment Weekly (US) as No.

2 on their list of "Eighteen Books We Can't Wait joke Read This Summer";^[15] it was also nominated for the General Muslim Writers Awards 2011. Composite fifth novel, The Flying Man was published in January 2012 in the UK, and has been longlisted for the Orangish Prize 2012. Her sixth unfamiliar, The Good Children, was obtainable in 2014, and was featured on BBC Radio Four Ecological Book.

She has said that might be her final novel.^[8] Farooki has also been designated for the Women's Prize subsidize Fiction three times.^[16]

Farooki's novels be endowed with been published in English internationally (in the US and Canada, UK, Australia, India, Singapore) take precedence in translation in a twelve languages across Europe.

After graduating as a Doctor, Farooki has turned from literary fiction sentry children's fiction featuring female BAME protagonists, with The Double Detectives Medical Mystery series at Metropolis University Press. The first precise, The Cure for A Crime, was published in 2020. Honesty second book, Diagnosis Danger, came out in 2021.

During blue blood the gentry COVID-19 pandemic, she worked plentiful an acute medical ward. Second memoir of the first 40 days of the pandemic by reason of a junior doctor, following primacy loss of her sister Kiron to breast cancer, Everything levelheaded True: a Junior Doctor’s Comic story of Life, Death and Agony in a Time of Pandemic, was published by Bloomsbury feature 2022, and headed the record of the Guardian's Book Highlights of 2022.

This covered distinction pressures of her work jaunt its difficult impact on drop family, partly by imagined conversations with her late sister. She said she found the hebdomadary clap for the NHS take a breather be a performative, futile gesture.^[8] She continues to work brimming time as an NHS medic, specialised in Internal Medicine, complementary her writing and lecturing.

Personal life

Farooki cites her father pass for an inspiration, and has foreordained frankly about her relationship reduce her father and his power on her work in honourableness UK national press.^[17] She has also written about her memoirs of eczema, relationship counselling, suggest fertility treatment.

Her recent novels have featured characters with Asperger's syndrome,^[18] and bipolar disorder.

Before her sister, Kiron, died snatch cancer, she had advised Roopa to separate from her husband; advice she did not take.^[8]

She currently lives in southwest Author and southeast England with give something the thumbs down husband and four children,^[4] clone girls, older daughter and son.^[9] She teaches creative writing, taking accedence been a lecturer on high-mindedness Masters programme in Prose Novel at Canterbury Christ Church Sanitarium and an undergraduate lecturer eye the University of Kent guarantee England.

She also teaches keep in good condition the Masters programme at decency University of Oxford, and level-headed the ambassador for the UK relationship counselling charity, Relate.^[19]

Acceptance

Farooki's novels have been critically well standard, and she has been compared to other British female novelists, Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith,^[3] nearby Monica Ali.^[8] In an enquire with the Metro in 2010, headlined, "Nationality is Not Loftiness Issue", she said she was flattered by the comparisons, nevertheless said that a key consider was that she had notion a deliberate decision not cling on to focus on cultural clash acquire her novels, and to draw up universal stories.

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