She has also spoken at various TEDx conferences in colleges and top business schools across India. She received a Live India Young Achievers Award in 2013 and was nominated for a First International Young Author Award, held in April 2018 in UAE. Nikita Singh has written twelve books which include some popular titles like T he Reason is You, Every Time It Rains, Like a Love Song, The Promise, and After All This Time. She has also been called “the Goddess of Racy Reads” in an article by The Hindu. Hailed as “India’s Leading Romance Writer” by HuffPost, Nikita signed a contract with Penguin Books India in 2011 and also joined Grapevine India as an editor. She then moved to New York for a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from The New School, New York City, from where she graduated in 2016. She graduated in pharmacy at the Acropolis Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research in Indore in 2012. Born in Patna, Bihar she completed her schooling in Indore and Ranchi. Raising to fame with her debut work at the tender age of nineteen, Nikita Singh is one of the most loved authors in the country.
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The one that’s published by Penguin Modern Classics is quite long, over 500 pages, and I don’t think it would be terribly easy to read it from end to end. In fact, the two editions in English in paperback that exist now are both quite different in terms of ordering. It doesn’t matter what order you read it in, because it is in fragments. The Book of Disquiet seems to be the work of a bookkeeper called Bernardo Suarez, who is, of course, Pessoa. Perhaps he just liked being rather mysterious. He invented personalities and characters and backstories and so on for all of his heteronyms, and he would write under any one of these different names. He had a large number of what he called ‘heteronyms’-noms de plume, I suppose is how we’d understand it. Pessoa was a Portuguese writer of all sorts of things, a poet, and a journalist. Yes, that’s The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, of whom I hadn’t heard before I bought the book. Foreign Policy & International Relations. 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