Sonia Faleiro is an Indian reporter and writer born in Goa, India, who studied in Edinburgh, and lived in San Francisco, USA. The Girl (Penguin Viking, 2006) is her first novel. Her second book is due to be published by Hamish Hamilton in August 2010.
Sonia Faleiro has reported for India Today and Tehelka magazines, and is currently a contributing editor to Vogue (India). Her reportage includes numerous reports on India's sex-workers, on Bombay's bar dancers, a six-part series on India's domestic workers, and extensive writings on the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha.
She is the recipient of a CNN Young Journalist Award in 2006. As well as awards from the Ratan Tata Trust, the Oxford Cambridge Society of India, and the British Council's D'Souza Trust.