Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh (author)
Date of Birth: Born: 7 September 1977
Place of Birth: Fiji
Education: Mount Roskill Primary School
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Website: nalinisingh.com
Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of numerous paranormal romance novels.
Early life
Of Indian descent, Nalini Singh was born in 1977 in Fiji, and moved to New Zealand as a child. She attended Mount Roskill Grammar School.
Writing
In 1999, Singh placed third in the Romance Writers of New Zealand's "Clendon Award". Then in 2001 her manuscript "Coaxing the Sheik" won the Jane Porter Award for highest-placed Mills and Boon, as well as the Clendon Award's Readers' Choice Award that year. It went on to be her first book sale as "Desert Warrior", sold to Silhouette Desire in September 2002 (published in 2003).
Her books have appeared on the New York Times best-sellers list, the USA Today best-sellers list, and the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list.
She has won several other awards including the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella/novelette (twice, in 2008 and 2009) .
She has had over two dozen novels published, including:
Other work
Nalini Singh spent three years working in Japan as an English teacher and touring other parts of Asia. At other times she has also worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, and a bank temp, but "not necessarily in that order".
