Priyanka Dubey

Priyanka Dubey is a bilingual writer and journalist. Her investigative reporting on social justice and human rights has won considerable International and National recognitions which includes the 2019 Chameli Devi Jain Award For Outstanding Woman Journalist, the 2015 Knight International Journalism Award, the 2014 Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, the 2013 Red Ink Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism, 2012 Press Council of India’s Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism and the 2011 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism. Also, her stories were finalists in the 2014 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist from the Developing World Awards and the 2013 German Development Media Awards. Priyanka is also a three times Laadli media award winner. She was a 2015-16 Chevening fellow in London and a 2015 writer-in-residence at the Sangam House writing residency, Bangalore. She was also a grantee of the International Women Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists in 2015. ‘No Nation for Women -Reportage on Rape from India, the World’s Largest Democracy’, her first book was published by Simon & Schuster. It was short-listed for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2019, Tata Literature Live Awards 2019 and the Prabha Khaitan Women’s Voice Award 2019.

She was born in Bhopal and now divides her time between plains and The Himalayas. She is currently writing a novel in Hindi.