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Nayantara Roy

Biography

Nayantara Roy

Nayantara Roy is the author of THE MAGNIFICENT RUINS, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice novel of 2024, an LA Times Editor's Pick, a Washington Post Best Book, a People Magazine Best Book, an Apple Books best debut, and a Hachette book club pick, among others. The book is currently being adapted for television by Universal Television.

Her second novel is SISTERS OF A HALVED HEART.

In 2018, Roy won the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award for '8C'. Her plays have been performed in the UK and India.

By day, she is a Senior Vice President of Television at Sandbox Entertainment, where she acquires and develops original scripted series. Her television career has included overseeing shows such as “Normal People,” “Nine Perfect Strangers,” “Mary & George,” “The Hunting Wives” and “Outlander,” among others.

Originally from India, she lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Nayantara Roy

Books by Nayantara Roy

Sisters of a Halved Heart
by Nayantara Roy - Fiction

Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York, a dream job that has given her nearly everything she's always wanted. And then she reconnects with Jack from college, and suddenly she feels as if she might have found her soulmate. They've woven their lives together so thoroughly. All that remains is for Jack to meet her family: her beloved father and dear sister, Joy. But when Joy commits an unthinkable act of betrayal, the sisters are impossibly fractured and their father's heart is broken. As the sisters navigate their tumultuous relationship and Mira starts over, it turns out that Joy isn't the only one who has been --- or continues to be --- dishonest.

The Magnificent Ruins
by Nayantara Roy - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Lila De is on the verge of a breakthrough in her career at a prestigious New York publishing house. But when she gets a call from her mother in India, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate, she must confront the legacy of an extended family that she thought she left behind 16 years ago. Returning to Kolkata reunites Lila with her mother after a decade of estrangement. Then there are her grandmother, aunts, uncles and cousins, all of whom still live in the house and resent her sudden inheritance. To make matters more complicated, her first boyfriend seeks her out, and her star author --- and occasional lover --- is suddenly determined to make things serious. As Lila tries to come to terms with both past and present, long-suppressed secrets from her family emerge, culminating in an act of shocking violence.